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Franklin Fillmore Farrington 

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PREFACE 


The subject matter presented in this book 
was first published in our monthly magazine 
during the past two years. 

Owing to the fact that requests have been 
received for the various articles in tangible 
form, they have been published in this volume. 

The reader will find that the different 
thoughts herein presented lend themselves to 
general uplift and inspiration—hence the title 

“C’mon Up-” 

Franklin F. Farrington. 





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YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY 


Worrv—the bugaboo of life! You have not 
vet lived unless you have learned to neutralize 
the acid thoughts of fear and anxiety. Sooner 
or later, mental unrest manifests itself—physi¬ 
cally, mentally and financially. 

‘‘Perhaps 75 per cent of all cases-of ill health 
are due to worry,” say physicians, “for physi¬ 
cal disorders are due to congestion, most of 
which is caused by mental tension.” 

Instead of saying as we formerly did, “ When 
about to let go, hold on”—in the Truth we re¬ 
vise the order of thought and say, “When 
about to hold on—let go.” 

One of the most direct ways of testing a per¬ 
son's physical and mental condition is to ascer¬ 
tain his ability to relax. When we tighten up 
mentally, we see the immediate effect on 
mind's expression—the body. 

Rheumatism, indigestion, constipation, 

blood pressure, headache, hardening of the ar¬ 
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teries and a score of other body ills are direct 
results of the ability to “hold on” instead of 
“letting go.” 

Stop “holding on!” Even from the field of 
material science we know that we need not 
fear loss of body or mind, if we untie our men¬ 
tal knots, for gravity holds us securely in our 
places. 

Lose yourself? There is no such thing. Do 
you remember when you first learned to swim 
—how desperately you reached out for sup¬ 
port for fear that you would drown? Then 
when you relaxed and let the water hold you, 
how foolish your fears seemed. 

The greatest step toward permanent suc¬ 
cess is taken when you consciously lose the 
personal self (the usurping king on the throne) 
and hand the glory to the unseen ruler—Uni¬ 
versal Intelligence — Power — Success; that 
“YOU” of you who knows nothing of respon¬ 
sibility, yet easily directs the affairs of all the 
worlds. 

Worry? The disease most prevalent among 

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mankind. Why? Because man thinks that he 
has the earth on his shoulders, like Atlas of 
old. 

Throw off the belief that you are destined 
for a life of worry because your parents, for 
instance, were chronic “worriers,” or because 
you have not manifested success in the past. 
Each time a negative condition faces you, af¬ 
firm positively, “I will not worry.” It is not 
enough to merely say it. Let it seep down into 
your consciousness, so that in time (according 
to your firm mind) you will have a new attitude 
toward life. “Ye must be born again.” 

Bow true is this statement—“Today is the 
tomorrow you worried about yesterday and 
it never happened.” 

Here is an individual suggestion: (1) Take 
a sheet of paper and write on it all of the things 
which have worried you during the past year. 

(2) Check off the worries which have not 
materialized. Notice how few of our fears 
bear fruit. 


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(3) Transfer to another sheet of paper those 
“feared’’ events which have come to pass. 

(4) Look each one straight in the eye. 

(5) Declare the Truth: “You are a lie. i 
brought you by my belief in two powers—good 
and evil. I have no use for you. I recognize 
only thoughts of Peace—Poise—Success.“ 

The world is looking for successful men and 
women. You cannot be the real success that 
you were intended to be, until you pronounce 
your own freedom from mental bondage. 
When your mind is at rest, you can be an in¬ 
spiration to others—not before. 

Are you ready to live? Then throw off the 
man-made shackles of worry and personal 
struggle. Worry costs an enormous price and 
takes away in return. Make your thoughts 
pay dividends. 

Do it NOW! 


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AUTUMN 

Autumn is it a hue discarding 

Of wornout sheathes of fading green; 

Is it not rather far the working 
Of the Infinite plan unseen? 

A packing down so that the future 
May blossom forth each year anew; 

After a time of silent nesting, 

Against the dear earth where it grew? 

Autumn is not the time of dying, 

All nature says, ‘'Conserve for Strength 

Life has no space for futile sighing— 

All’s well; He guideth all at length; 

'Then why this sorrow, why this anguish ? 
We need more faith in Him above; 

More ^confidence that all our troubles 
Are nothing in the hands of Love. 

Nature hath faith; each autumn lieth 
It down to rest in silent peace, 

Until in God’s own time it waketh, 

An added beauty to release. 


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Let us give thanks for summer's frolic, 

Welcome the storm fast drawing nigh— 

To test our strength—In faith we conquer, 

Souls do not blossom forth to die. 

1922 Ottilie Schroeder 

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SEVEN NEW WONDERS OF THE 

WORLD 

Wonder—if we are ever going to learn that 
we are not running the universe. 

Wonder—if we realize that no one gives to 
us but ourselves and no one takes away from 
us but ourselves. 

Wonder—if we watch our thoughts and 
words closely enough. 

Wonder—if we really believe that all energy 
is good. 

Wonder—if we ever heal ourselves by send¬ 
ing thoughts of Truth to others instead of only 
to ourselves. 

Wonder—if we are thankful enough for all 

our blessings, sunshine, air and the great out- 

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of-doors; sight, hearing, speech, knowledge 
and wisdom. 

Wonder—when we are going to begin to 
wonder about the kingdom of Heaven within. 

J* V* J* 

NEAR-BY POSSIBILITIES 

A great many young folks who grumble 
about their lack of advantages are not begin¬ 
ning to improve the opportunities that come to 
them. There are girls who bemoan their 
ill fortune in not being able to see the Eu¬ 
ropean art galleries, who never have visited 
the gallery in a city a few miles away. 
There are thousands who pity themselves 
for not having had better educational ad¬ 
vantages, while it never occurs to them to 
join the club which is making a study of 
ancient history, or to go into the French class 
which is being organized in the neighborhood. 

The public library is still another source 
of education which not one person in many 
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people who hear all the instructive lectures 
delivered in their home towns in the course 
of the year, have added considerably to their 
information. 

Don’t spend so much time fretting about 
the opportunities you don’t have. Devote a 
little time and thought to those which may 
be found close at hand. 

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POINTED PARAGRAPHS 

HSomeone asked a famous musician: “What 
is your favorite composition?” The answer 
was: “Whatever I am playing.” 

^Sometimes people say “I will try” in a man¬ 
ner which indicates they expect to fail. 

HThe twin arts of refusing graciously and ac¬ 
cepting as if it were a pleasure, should be cul¬ 
tivated by everyone. 

Hit is not the youth who can do the hundred 
yard dash in the fewest seconds whose future 

success is most certain, but the one who can go 

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ahead at a steady gait ten hours a day on a 
stretch. 

USome people use enough energy in a fit of 
temper to make a thousand dollars if used 
constructively. 

TfDon’t try to satisfy your hunger with a 
frosted cake. 

HGrieving over your losses will bring nothing 
back. 

HEase is mental; so is dis-ease. 

HA gloomy face at the dinner table spoils the 
meal. 

HDon’t feel sorry for yourself but feel sorry 
for the people who have to live with you. 

HKeep clear of personalities in conversation. 
Talk of things, objects and thoughts. The 
smallest minds occupy themselves with per¬ 
sons. 

HKeep one aim before you, but keep moving. 

HThere’s a saying old and rusty but as good 
as any new; ’tis “Never trouble trouble till 
trouble troubles you.” 

HTake it for granted that you can. 


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HDoing too many things is the reason for 
failure. ‘‘He who runs after two hares will 
catch neither.” “This one thing I do.” 

HWhen you are discouraged, read biography. 
It is a remarkable fact that most men whose 
lives are worth printing have overcome great 
obstacles. 

HPoise is not noise. 

HTo succeed, man needs three things: 
1, Sand; 2. Sand; 3. Sand. 

TOo not stand and ask how the seed may be¬ 
come a flower —Plant it. 

ft You must do something. Reading a physi¬ 
cal culture magazine never made one strong. 

Hit takes a little longer in the first place to do 
a thing thoroughly than to half do it, but in 
the end thoroughness is a time saver. 

TOo not look back; remember Lot's wife. 

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RELAXATION 

It is agreed that relaxation is necessary be¬ 
fore any great thing is done. The American 

public seems to know very little of its value. 

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Hurry and worry, which do so much to destroy 
health, success and happiness, cannot remain 
when one is relaxed. 

The personal element or personal belief is 
the enemy of relaxation. When the individual 
thinks that he is personally responsible for the 
world, of course he worries and knows very lit¬ 
tle, if anything, of poise. We are in the sweep 
of a wonderful, beneficent power and instead 
of controlling it, “IT” controls us. 

Many people are so tense. As the clouds of 
appearances darken and seem to thicken, man 
grows more tense. Most of the strained hearts 
and eyes are nothing but reflexes, revealing 
that behind these organs and muscles there is 
a strained mind, filled with anxious thoughts. 
If instead of “tightening up” when things seem 
hopeless man would “loosen up,” he would find 
that conditions would change mentally and 
materially. 

Watch, if you will, a boy learning to swim. 
He is all arms and legs. He struggles and 
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result ? He goes to the bottom. The teacher 
looks on, for he has seen similar actions many 
times. He instructs the boy, telling him to 
“let go.” The boy wants to, but the personal 
struggle seems too great. Then he obeys the 
instructor and strikes out in an easy manner. 
What is the result? He remains on top. There 
ought to be a lesson in this for us today. 

When we relax, it is not personal but imper¬ 
sonal power that works. That is the scientific 
reason for success coming through relaxation. 
The garden hose that has a kink in it is not 
open for the flow of water. The individual 
whose mind and body are closed, does not al¬ 
low the Universal Energy to pass through 
him. 

“LET GO” might be written “LET GO-D.” 
When we let God (Universal Energy) work, 
we find that this power works best, as it works 
most easily. We do not help the automobile 
up hill by clutching the steering wheel and 
straining every muscle. We do not write bet¬ 
ter by grasping the pencil with a viselike grip. 

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“LET GO.” We do not think better by 
struggling, but by “letting.” The word 
“LET” is found three hundred and thirty- 
three times in the New Testament—a small 
word, but very important. I am sure people 
could go to sleep at night and sleep better 
if they would “LET” the bed hold them. Many 
people who are supposed to be in bed, never 
touch it. 

The violin string must be tuned and there¬ 
fore tightened, but never ro the breaking point. 
We have had too much teaching concerning 
the power of the personal will. Its power will 
wreck you if you use it. What is needed to¬ 
day is more teaching along the line of meta¬ 
physics, where the so-called human will is lost 
in the Divine; where the personal self is 
merged with the Spirit. 

“As water mixes with water, as air unites 
with air, as light blends with light, we are one 
with Universal Energy.” “I can do nothing 
(but relax); it is the Father within me; He 
doeth the work.” When man relaxes, he be- 


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comes responsive and above all receptive to 
great influences. By going into the Silence 
and remaining relaxed, one man received 2200 
new ideas in three months. Three hundred 
of these were used in the invention of three 
hundred new machines. 

I sat looking out over the Pacific ocean the 
other day and watched the sea gulls in their 
flight. I noticed how easily they flew. Then 
some of them rode the waves. They put forth 
no effort but just “LET”—and how the waves 
lifted them and brought them to shore. In 
reality, when they gave up struggling they 
had the whole ocean working with them and 
for them. 

That is also the lesson one learns from child¬ 
hood. Children live with such perfect aban¬ 
don; such carefree activity, but all because they 
have such perfect relaxation—always “letting” 
God live them; breathe them; think them. 
They seem to know that God thinks, not man; 
that God speaks, not man; that God lives, not 

man. It was possibly this which the great 

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teacher saw and understood, when he said: 
“Except ye become as little children, ye shall 
in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” 

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they 
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And 
yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all 
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” 
The Master did not say, “Consider how much 
they are worth a dozen.” He said, “Look at 
the flowers of the FIELD (where man does 
not cultivate them) and consider HOW they 
grow. They grow without fear, strain or 
worry. They just ‘LET’ GOD GROW 
THEM.” Too many of us have been denied 
the rare privilege of “growing” like Topsy. 
We have come forth because of a false forced 
growth and we suffer today because of it. 

Confidence always comes from a mind that 
has been relaxed because of understanding. 
Those who go about their tasks with an air 
of certainty, are those who have learned the 
great lesson of relaxation. Positive people 
perhaps have more difficulty in relaxing and 
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turns, but when they do, they become great 
powers for Good. 

It has been my experience that all forms of 
so-called disease begin with a tense, worried 
mental state. The body is just the reflection 
of what we think, and so shows the effects. 
When the mind is treated (not the body) and 
the patient taught how to relax, marvelous re¬ 
sults come forth. 

Being relaxed to God (open to the influx 
of Omnipotence) does not make one weak, but 
on the contrary, makes one strong. By this 
method and this only, one loses his mortal be¬ 
liefs and expresses his Godlike nature. 

“LET GO!” 

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MYSELF AND ME 

I am the best pal I ever had, 

I like to be with me; 

I like to sit and tell myself 
Things confidentially. 

I often sit and ask me 

If I shouldn’t or I should, 

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And I find that my advice to me 
Is always pretty good. 

I never got acquainted with 
Myself till here of late; 

And I find myself a bully chum, 

I treat me simply great. 

I talk with me and walk with me, 
And show me right and wrong; 

I never knew how well myself 
And I could get along. 

I never try to cheat me; 

I’m as trustful as can be, 

No matter what may come or go, 
I’m on the square with me. 

It’s great to know yourself and have 
A pal that’s all your own; 

To be such company for yourself, 
You’re never left alone. 

You’ll try to dodge the masses, 

And you’ll find the crowds a joke, 

If you only treat yourself as well 

As you treat other folks. 

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I’ve made a study of myself, 

Compared me with the lot, 

And I’ve finally concluded 
I’m the best friend I’ve got. 

Just get together with yourself, 

And trust yourself with you, 

And you’ll be surprised how well yourself 
Will like you if you do.—George Cohan. 

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AFFIRMATIONS 

I rejoice with my whole heart and yet ex¬ 
press self control. 

I do all things easily—without strain or ten¬ 
sion. 

I am freely open to the best—closed to the 
undesirable. 

I feel complete in myself. 

I trust myself. 

I sleep a deep sleep—a sweet sleep—a les¬ 
son sleep. 

Divine intelligence guides me, rules me and 
directs me; I always know just what to do and 
say. 


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I welcome each experience for the lesson 
which it holds. 

Each moment I am born anew. 

Good will to the world! 

v* J* V* 

NOTES FROM AN OLD NOTE BOOK 

Everyone can do his best thing easiest. 

I fear no darkness, save the darkness of ig¬ 
norance. 

The sixth sense is the sense of humor. 

The first step toward freedom is to forgive. 

Don’t hurry ; “I AM”—eternity. 

I am not a body with a soul to save, but a 
soul with a body to express what that soul is. 

Expect great things of Yourself. 

Housecleaning means, to set your mind in 
order. 

Imperfect vision comes from seeing imper¬ 
fect things. 

“I” sight—not eye sight. “He who formed 
the eye, shall He not see?” 

The new way of living is the old way—live 
from within. 


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Everyone is so hungry for the simple life 
and it is so simple. 

When you were a boy, you were proud to 
outgrow your old coat. Are you just as proud 
to outgrow your old beliefs today? 

In the “I AM/’ there are no limitations— 
Fire cannot burn Me; water cannot drown 
Me; "I AM”—Spirit. 

Bring forth your Lazarus by the spoken 
word. “Come forth”—health, wealth, happi¬ 
ness. 

Faith steps out on seeming void and finds 
it a solid rock. 

I plus I equals One. 

Creating God in our image is false—God 
creating us in His image is Truth. 

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FROM WINDOWS OF VISION 

From my apartment window in Washing¬ 
ton, I can see the Washington monument just 
five blocks away. It is just after a summer 
thunder storm. The rain fell in a torrent and 

the trees were bent to the ground. Here and 

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there are great limbs broken from their 
trunks and lying in the streets. The dark 
clouds are beating a retreat toward the ocean 
—the sunlight is streaming through slits in 
the clouds and throwing light on the monu¬ 
ment. It is the tallest piece of masonry in 
the world and without doubt the most majes¬ 
tic. There it stands after the storm just the 
same. There is a reason. It has a wonderful 
foundation, thirty-six feet deep. 

When you look at this monument you do 
not see all. You must always remember that 
thirty-six feet of it are buried out of sight. In 
estimating the height of the monument no ac¬ 
count is taken of this foundation; the estimate 
simply says, “So many hundred feet high.” 
We are prone to judge like that, judging by 
appearances or that which can be seen. This 
beautiful work of man stands there majestic; 
serene through summer and winter; never 
changing—always the same. 


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DON’T RESIST 

If the clothes-line breaks; if the cat tips 
over the milk and the dog elopes with the 
roast; if the children fall into the mud simul¬ 
taneously with the advent of clean aprons; if 
the new girl quits in the middle of houseclean¬ 
ing, and though you search the earth with 
candles you find none to take her place; if the 
neighbor you have trusted goes back on you 
and decides to keep chickens; if the chariot 
wheels of the uninvited guest draw near when 
you are out of provender, and the gaping of 
your empty purse is like the unfilled mouth of 
a young robin, take courage, if you have 
enough sunshine in your heart to keep the 
laugh on your lips. Before good nature, half 
the cares of daily living will fly away like 
midges before the wind. Try it.— Waterman's 
"The Girl Wanted? 

This is the best day the world has ever seen; 
tomorrow will be better.— R. A. Campbell. 


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HE DID HIS BEST 


In the long, low Eastern workroom 
The Weavers wove apace, 

Each on his separate pattern, 

Each in his own set place: 

Threads of the sunset’s splendor 
In their sinewy-fingers whirled. 

Under their hands, triumphant, 

Grew the Work of the World. 

Only one worked in silence, 

Only one head bent low— 

The best and the blithest workman 

Who had welcomed the morning’s glow; 
But the threads in his hands had faded, 
Tarnished the gold and green, 

And the work that should have crowned him. 
Foredoomed, grew poor and mean. 

Wondering, the others watched him; 

‘Tut by, put by,” quoth they; 

“You shame your skill by such labor; 

Rest from the loom today.” 

But he bent to his work in silence. 

Save when the whisper rose, 

“Surelv the Master set the task. 

And surelv the Master knows.” 

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In bitter pain and heartbreak 
He wove till his work was done, 

And the Master of all the Weavers 
Came at the set of sun : 

'Then, as the others thronged him, 

Showing their patterns rare, 

The Master turned to him who had failed 
And laid a hand on his hair. 

“Well done, well done, my Weavers, 

And rich shall your guerdons be! 

But of all your beauteous patterns 
This one best pleaseth me; 

For the Red of Courage, the Gold of Faith, 
Are woven whene’er a man 
Looks in the face of Failure 

And does the best that he can.*’ 


A POINT OF VIEW 

Two boys examined a bush. One observed 
that it had a thorn; the other, that it had a 
rose. 

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Two children were looking through colored 
glasses, when one said, “The world is blue;’' 
the other said, “It is bright.’’ 

Two boys having a bee, one got honey, the 
other got stung. The first called it a honey¬ 
bee; the other, a stinging-bee. 

“I am glad that I live,” says one man. k T 
am sorry that I must die,” says another. 

“I am glad,” said one, “that it is no worse.” 
“I am sorry,” said another, “that it is no bet¬ 
ter.” 

One says, “Our good is mixed with evil.” 
Another says, “Our evil is mixed with good.” 

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AT-ONE-MENT 
Gertrude Bishop White. 

’Tis God, this life that is in me; 

’Tis by His sight that I can see; 

’Tis by His hearing that I hear, 

And when I speak it is His voice, 

And all my choosing is His choice. 

This hand is really God’s own hand, 

And His, these feet on which I stand. 

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Where’er I go, there God is near, 

For Father-God and I are one— 

Whate’er I do by Him is done. 

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“NOW” 

There is no more important word in the 
F v nglish language than “NOWf' 

Too long have we employed such terms as 
“tomorrow,” “yesterday,” “next month,” 
“last year,” etc., without giving proper atten¬ 
tion to “today.” As we have given our 
thoughts and our energy toward dwelling on 
the past or meditating too long upon the fu¬ 
ture, we have lost the opportunity of the pres¬ 
ent moment. 

Those failures which we have encountered 
in the past are gone. Man cannot redeem 
them by brooding over them. The future with 
its uncertain events cannot be lived before its 
time. Our duty or privilege, rather, is to 
wisely improve the present so that we may be 
worthy of receiving the good fortune which 

we are strongly desiring. 

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I am reminded at this point of a thought 
written by Carleton Everett Knox, poet and 
philosopher of Kansas City, Missouri, whom 
I have had the pleasure of meeting on several 
different occasions. Mr. Knox gives his mes¬ 
sage of optimism in this way: 

“Let not the mistakes of yesterday. 

Nor the fear of tomorrow. 

Spoil thy today/’ 

There is no time but the “NO W/’ 
ft is NOW the moment of yesterday; it is 
NOW the moment of tomorrow; it is NOW. 
There is nothing but the NOW . Time is un¬ 
known to the great Universal Intelligence 
which formed the worlds and is sustaining 
them in their proper spheres. 

Are you hypnotized into believing that you 
are destined through heredity to be poor and 
unsuccessful? Then wake up from your self- 
imposed bondage and come forth free as the 
butterfly comes forth from the cocoon. 

Are you chained by the belief that you are 
crushed by your environment or circumstan¬ 
ces? Then throw away the crutches upon 

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which you have been leaning and step forth 
alone. 

Are you waiting for your star to rise before 
you can be the successful man or woman that 
you want to be? If so, know this—that the 
stars '‘incline but do not compel.” You can¬ 
not afford to wait for outer conditions to bring 
you your health, success and happiness. You 
must awaken right NOW to the possibilities 
within you and capitalize them. 

I can not make up your mind for you; you 
can not make up my mind for me. You must 
make up your mind to make up your oivn mind 

NOW . 

A student of psychology in an Eastern city 
made this statement to me, which I consider 
dynamic: “I have not conquered all of my neg¬ 
ative thoughts and tendencies, but I have 
checked them where I found them when I 
found myself and they shall go no farther.” 

To you who have all but given up because 
of the mental maze into which you have 
brought yourself, stand on both feet NOW 

and make up your mind that henceforth you 

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ancl not the conditions surrounding you, will 
be master. 

One of the most important forms of mental 
gymnastics and self-discipline is to be able to 
immediately turn the stream of thought ac¬ 
tivity from a negative into a positive channel. 

The majority of people are scattering their 
energy and force over too wide an area—wor¬ 
rying over the customer whom they offended 
yesterday; wondering if they will be able to 
pay the note when it comes due in seven weeks 
—when the only target which they must strike 
for their immediate problem is “NOW.” 

So many people say to me, “I could be a 
great success if I were not so old/’ The has¬ 
tening years do not bring age. Age is brought 
by thought and not by time. The modern 
medical scientists and mental specialists tell 
us that the cells of our body are constantly be¬ 
ing rejuvenated; then why inflict upon our¬ 
selves the punishment of old age? Age is 
brought by thought and not by time. He who 
forgets time, retains youth. I have met many 


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an old man at thirty and many a young man 
at sixty-five. 

Have you been saying that you lost your 
opportunity several months ago when you 
failed to take advantage of a certain offer 
which would have brought you financial inde¬ 
pendence? Look to the “NOW." There is 
no better time in which to grasp opportunity 
than “NOW” Opportunity does not come 
only one time at a certain appointed hour, but 
is constantly “knocking at your door” to gain 
admission. Are you at home or are you at 
your neighbor's telling him how unlucky you 
are and how you feel doomed for a life of dis¬ 
couragement? If you are bewailing your lot, 
you are choosing your own unhappy destiny 
for “thought is another name for fate” and you 
can be what you want to be. 

Very often we do not rise to a conviction 
of our own ability until we have been so 
crushed that we actually rebel against the 
thought of our annihilation. After every 
crutch—parental, social, financial—has been 
taken away from us, we are forced to call upon 

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our own mental resources and find within our- 
selves exactly the knowledge and power which 
we had been previously seeking in someone 
else. 

I could tell you of case after case (each as 
wonderful as the other) of men and women 
who have come up out of the most humble 
circumstances; out of the most discouraging 
physical conditions to claim their own in this 
world. 

We turn to those characters who have at¬ 
tained positions of eminence in the eyes of the 
world and say, “Isn’t it wonderful?” Not so. 
They merely awakened to the possibilities of 
the “NOW!’ 

Abraham Lincoln looked not mournfully 
into the past. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: 
“Rely upon yourself;” Thomas A. Edison, 
when his $7,000,000 factory burned said: 
“Boys, I’ll start all over; this is just a tempo¬ 
rary setback.” 

If you have been waiting for someone to aid 

you financially—if you have been depending 

upon someone else to advise you as to which 

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foot to put forward first, make up your mind 
“NOW" to live as the great Creative Mind 
intended you to live—free from the gnawing 
fear which comes from regretting the past and 
doubting the future—ignoring the “NOW:" 

Have you hypnotized yourself into the deci¬ 
sion that “some day” you will rise and be the 
success that you are longing to be? To you 
l say, “NOW is the accepted time.” Throw 
off the mental shackles of discouragement and 
procrastination which are binding you to the 
pillar of failure and defeat. 

Come forth and live— “NOW!" 

THINKOGRAMS 

We let other people do our thinking for us, 
and then we complain of the results. 

Some people take a rest as if they were tak¬ 
ing something that didn't belong to them. 

I would rather have my piece of pie now, 
than wait until I am too old to chew it. 

Some men are like dogs; pat them on the 

head and they put their feet in your lap. 

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No one ever reached his destination by sit¬ 
ting- in the station and consulting the time 
table. 

There are three classes of people in the 
world: 

1. The “Will's"—accomplish everything. 

2. The “Wont's’’—oppose everything. 

3. The “Cant’s”—fail in everything. 

No man’s troubles are as great as his sighs. 

‘‘Life, my brethren, is mostly made up of 
prayin’ for rain, and den wishin’ ‘twould clar 
off.” 

People are not half so bad as they are “Ko¬ 
daked.” 

When the “outlook” is not good, try the 
“up” look. 

When I did well, I heard it never; when I 
did ill, I heard it ever. 

The mewing cat is never a good mouser. 

Promise little and do much. 

A blunt wedge will often do more than a 
sharp axe. 

Counsel must be follozved —not praised. 


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No wind can do him good who steers for 
no port. 

When angry, count ten; when very angry, 
count one hundred. 

What costs little, is little esteemed. 

That which proves too much, proves noth¬ 
ing. 

Use soft words and hard arguments. 

The more we have the more we want, the more 
we want the less we have. 

Who buys has need of eyes, but one’s enough 
to sell the stuff. 

Change of pasture makes fat calves. 

Labor sweetens rest. 

Would you know the value of a dollar? Bor¬ 
row one. 

The fox does not go twice into the same 
trap. 

If you can’t help, don’t hinder. 

What keeps out the cold, keeps out the heat. 

All leaf—no print. 

An hour in the morning is worth two in the 
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Better three hours too soon than one min¬ 
ute too late. 

If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. 

Tall trees catch much wind. 

Follow the river and you will get to the 
sea. 

Little strokes fell great oaks. 

A little pot is soon hot. 

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always 
a happy couple. 

“He is too lean—he thinks.’’ 

Better be envied than pitied. 

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with 
the same bait. 

He who pelts every barking dog, must pick 
up a great many stones. 

He who can travel well afoot, keeps a good 
horse. 

If a man empties his purse into his head, no 
man can steal his gold. 


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ALONG THE PATH 

1 would be kind, for there are those who 
perish 

For lack of kindness all the world around; 

I would be faithful that the many faithless, 
Who throng the earth, may by one less 
abound; 

T would be cheerful that the ones who sorrow, 
May draw their strength from that which 
flows through me. 

I would love all alike—would see no evil, 
Condemning none, for Truth hath set them 
free. 

I would be friend indeed to all the friendless, 
To link them in one loving brotherhood. 

And I would deign to look upon the erring— 
With Wisdom’s love and find in them but 
good. 

Thus would I view the swiftly fleeing hours. 
As Time’s allotment that the soul may 
grow— 

From the Eternal unto the Eternal, 


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That all may learn, and understand and 
know 

Man and the things that are, as Spirit working 
Unto perfection through a Power Divine, 
That EVER WAS, and IS and WILL BE, 
And realize it consciously as mine. 

I would give thanks each day unto the Father, 
And every action fraught with prayer would 
be— 

A fragment of the Now, a Thought of Heaven, 
A knowledge that this is Eternity. 

—Ottilie Schroeder, 3514 N. 25th Street, 

St. Louis, Mo. 
July, 1923, Copyright 

■j* ,* 

“WHAT I OWE MYSELF” 

An interesting conversation took place be¬ 
tween two friends the other day in the lobby 
of an Eastern hotel. The writer overheard 
this much of it. One friend said to the other: 
“I owe a considerable amount of money to Mr. 
A and Mr. B, but not as much as I owe my¬ 
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terms of dollars and cents, but his statement 
has many sides. Possibly he did not realize 
all that he said, and so it is well to think over 
the expression, “What I owe myself.” 

Many people live in the vibration of thought 
which leads them to constantly think of their 
debt to others. It is possible that they will 
always be in debt to others because they are 
looking outside instead of inside. One must 
pay his debt to another, but he must not be 
unmindful that he owes something to himself. 
What a deplorable thing it is to be self-cen¬ 
tered or to have your thoughts centered on 
some other personality instead of being Self- 
centered ! 

How many misguided parents feel a debt to 
their children and forget what they owe them¬ 
selves. I have seen mothers go without new 
clothes and give more than is necessary to a 
child. Too many parents are trying to live 
their children’s lives, to carry their burdens 
and manage their affairs. To carry your own 
burdens is quite enough, but to bear the bur¬ 
dens of a household is quite out of reason. Re- 

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member “what you owe yourself/’ Many peo¬ 
ple were “brought up” instead of “growing 
up.” We are seeing the sad effects of a 
thought which has bound and enslaved hu¬ 
manity for ages. It is the so-called mortal 
thought of “good enough for me.” Nothing 
is good enough for you unless it is the BEST. 
The old idea of man being a poor mortal, sin¬ 
ful, “worm of the dust” creature is one of the 
greatest lies this world has ever received. It 
slanders God, enslaves man, crushes beauty, 
paralyzes effort and denies the Bible. 

Man is created in the image and likeness of 
God. He was born perfect and because of his 
heritage must ever remember the debt he owes 
to himself. It was Jesus who first taught this 
when he said, “Love thy neighbor as thyself/’ 
Possibly people find it difficult to love others 
because they do not love themselves. What 
we see in others is really in us. The real love 
of SELF will show in loving others. I have 
known people to speak against themselves 
shamefully. Do not be afraid to invest in your- 


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self. The person who is mean to himself is 
generally the same to others. 

You owe yourself all the faith and love you 
have. Do not boast of your so-called limita¬ 
tions; you owe yourself better treatment. 
There are some people who impress us as in¬ 
clined to boast over the lack which naturally 
would call for an apology. They tell us what 
they cannot do and emphasize it with an air 
which seems to imply that on the whole it is 
rather admirable. The girl who is constantly 
declaring that she can't keep her accounts, or 
that she can’t get a meal fit to eat, gives us 
the impression that she had better drop the 
subject until she has a different report to give. 
So with the boy who confesses to incapacity 
in a way which suggests that he rather ad¬ 
mires it in himself. 

“What I owe myself' is a wonderful state¬ 
ment and we must be good to ourselves. How 
many people live such a bare life when they 
might be free! They are heard making such 
statements as these, “I have no time for si¬ 
lence," “I cannot afford a new dress," “I will 

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not buy that new book now,” etc. Pay your 
debt to others, by all means, but remember 
what you owe yourself. 

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THINK 

Nothing on earth can smile, but man. 

The worst never happens. 

The hardest troubles to get rid of are the 
ones you borrow. 

Failure is not the worst thing—the worst 
thing is not to try. 

When the fight begins within himself, a 
man’s worth something. 

A man is not doing his level best who is 
content to stay on the same level. 

The man who goes alone can start today ; 
but he who travels with another, must wait till 

that other is ready, and it may be a long time 
before they get off. 

I’ll bind myself to that which, once being 
right, will not be less right when I shrink from 
it. 

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. 

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After the meeting one of the employees 
stepped up to the speaker and told of a certain 
man who had been in the employ of the Com¬ 
pany for twenty-eight years and during all 
that time had received neither a change in 
position nor an advance in pay. 

The official was incredulous and made it a 
point to look up the neglected employee, upon 
the following day. 

He found his man in the yards, engaged in 
tapping the wheel of a freight car with a 
small hammer. 

“How long have you been working herer*’’ 
asked the official. 

“Twenty-eight years, sir,” answered the man 
straightening up. 

“Twenty-eight years! Not many men have 
been with us for that length of time. How 
many raises have you had in those twenty- 
eight years?” 

“None, sir,” expectantly. 

“What!” cried our hero. “It’s impossible. 
What have you been doing here all these 
years ?” 


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“Tapping wheels, sir,” replied the man. 

“Tapping wheels—what do you do that for?” 

“I don’t know, sir.” 

jt 

ARE YOU DISCOURAGED? 

W hen Abraham Lincoln was a young man 
he ran for the legislature of Illinois, and was 
badly swamped. 

He next entered business, failed and spent 
seventeen years of his life paying up the debts 
of a worthless partner. 

He was in love with a beautiful young wom¬ 
an to whom he became engaged—then she 
died. 

Later he married a woman who was a con¬ 
stant burden to him. 

He then tried to get an appointment to the 
U. S. land office, but failed. 

Entering politics again, he ran for Congress, 
and was badly defeated. 

He became a candidate for the U. S. Con¬ 
gress, and was badly defeated. 

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In 1856 he became a candidate for the Vice- 
Presidency and was again defeated. 

In 1858 he was defeated by Douglas. 

One failure after another—bad failures— 
great setbacks. In the face of all this he even¬ 
tually became one of the country’s greatest 
men, if not the greatest. 

When you think of a series of setbacks like 
these, doesn’t it make you feel small to become 
discouraged, just because you are having a 
hard time in life? 

Clear, conscious knowing—a requisite for 
the realization of peace, power and plenty. 

& 

AFFIRMATIONS 

Infinite Love and Infinite Wisdom are in 
complete control. 

My mind is a part of the great Universal 
Mind. 

When T think, God thinks. 

I have instantly all that I need. 

Let your conversation be in heaven (perfect 
consciousness). 


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Healing is not attainment ; healing is revela¬ 
tion. 

There is plenty of Substance (invisible)— 
there is plenty of Good—Prosperity IS. 

I (personality) die daily. 

There are no errors in the great eternal plan 
—Perfection IS. 

“I am”—Health (I think healthy thoughts). 
“I am”—Success (1 think Success 

thoughts). 

“I am”—Power (1 think powerful 

thoughts). 

All that God is—‘T am.” 

4 < 4 

tS** Key* 

TWO POINTS OF VIEW 

Smiling spoke the sage, as watching, 

He saw’ a ground hog start, 

And in fright at its own shadow’ 

For its home, in panic, dart. 

‘‘Thou art like us, little brother! 

just a shadow, it is true, 

Just a flash across thy pathway 

Of a somber threatening hue, 

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But thy wee heart seems to falter. 

And thy instinct says to thee, 

‘Back of shadow must be substance 
Dark and full of harm to me. 

I will hide within my shelter 
Six long weeks in shivering cold. 

Till such terrors come no longer 
Or I learn to grow more bold.’ ” 

So with us! We start forth gaily, 
When, a shadow in our path, 

Not, perhaps, an actual trouble, 

Not exactly scorn or wrath, 

But a sneer, or chill aloofness, 

Or some careless words that smart, 

And we shrink back in hurt silence— 
Six more weeks of winter in the heart! 

But the wise old negro mammy 

And the sage do not agree. 

“Well, some folks is jes’ plum cur’ous, 

Cain’t no thing like dat scaire me. 

‘Back of shadder mus’ be substance.’ 

Yes, dat sholy do soun’ fine, 

But behind dat selfsame substance, 

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Why de sun have GOT ter shine. 

Or dey WOULDN’T BE NO SHADDER; 
So if I gets it right, 

Shadders only mean at somethin’s 
Got between you an’ de light , 

Don’t pay no ’tention to deni, 

NOR de substance, neidder one, 

Don’t look AT dem, jes peek ’ROUND ’em. 
And you’s bound to see de sun. 

I sho am sorry foh dat hawg, 

But, lawsy, foh my part, 

Ain’t no measly shadder gwine make 
Six weeks’ wintah in MY heart.” 

—By Gwen Tipton Thompson. 

jt jt & 

A CREED 

The following classic is being wafted about 

in the newspapers and nobody seems to be 

able to identify the author: 

I believe in the cheery whistle of the bob 

white. I believe in smiles, even though the 

heart is heavy; in lending a hand; in stopping 

in the shade of a tree on the road of life to chat 

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a while with some neighbors; in saying kind 
things before it is too late; in keeping my eyes 
on the stars though I walk in the mire. I be¬ 
lieve that nothing can hurt me save only as I 
let it; that each failure brings me nearer the 
ultimate success; that should I ever reach the 
topmost round of the ladder, 1 should make 
way for others, stooping to help them up be¬ 
side me. I believe that God hates no one but 
does despise a man that cheats. 

I believe in broad fields of ripening clover; 
I believe in trusting the man at whom a child 
smiles. I believe in getting ready for things; 
in cutting corn until there is enough, and then 
cutting more; in piling the winter wood high 
against the kitchen wall; in saying “Good¬ 
night” so that if by chance I do not wake I 
may stand unafraid before Him without re¬ 
gret or repining for things done or undone, 
words spoken or unspoken. I believe in say¬ 
ing only those things which I might say be¬ 
fore my mother; in doing only those things 
which I might frankly tell her. 

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float in the heavenly blue. I believe in bend* 

j 

ing my head to a friendless cur, but in keeping 
my head erect in the presence of those whose 
pretended greatness wasn’t won by their own 
efforts; who have not done something to make 
the world brighter and better. I believe in 
childhood. I believe in manhood. I believe 
in womanhood. 

I believe in the storm which rises suddenly 

«r 

and, passing, leaves the sun shining brighter 
than ever. I believe that storms are due in my 
own life, but I know that after them comes 
the morning, bright with promise, a new day. 

YOUTH—A MESSAGE OF SPRING 

Everyone is interested in learning the secret 
of eternal youth. It is natural to be young 
and however strongly it may seem to contra¬ 
dict all appearances, it is unnatural to grow 
old. If we will but reason for a few moments, 
we shall be convinced of this statement. 

The natural desire for youth and life must 
become stronger in man’s subconscious mind. 

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The belief in old age and death must decrease 
as the desire for the opposite becomes stronger. 
When a plant desires water or any organic 
element in the soil, we do not question the 
desire, but conclude (and with good judgment) 
that it is natural. 

Since I have never found man desiring old 
age and death, I am forced to accept the in¬ 
evitable—that youth and life eternal are per¬ 
fectly natural. The subconscious mind will 
have to be re-educated and changed from the 
old to the new belief. From the beginning, 
man has looked for the fountain of youth. He 
has sought the elixir of life, but he has been 
unable to find it in anv external source. It, 
like all our good, is nearer than we think—it is 
within the realm of mind. 

What I believe will decide whether I am to 
grow old and die (which no man really desires) 
or retain my youth and life. We must change 
our minds regarding this vital issue if we are 
to change our bodies so that our youth is to 
be renewed—“that we may run and not be 

weary, and walk and not faint.” 

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Medical science is quite agreed upon this 
point—that the body is remade, re-created ev¬ 
ery so often. Some of the tissues are renewed 
each moment. At certain intervals we are in 
possession of a new body. Man is body, soul 
(mind) and Spirit. The Spirit does not age— 
the mind is timeless and ageless—the body is 
constantly being renewed. Then what ages? 
Thought and thought alone. When the belief 
in time, age and death are eliminated, man 
lives the ageless, timeless, deathless life or life 
eternal. 

Nothing is impossible that the mind holds 
possible. Just think —new eyes, not the same 
eyes you had a few years ago. If glasses were 
necessary then, there is no reason why they 
should be found so now. A new body—now 
all that is needed is a new consciousness, and 
that is to be the consciousness of youth— 
NOW. 

People often say to me, “But I am going to 

live my full time/’ What is your full time— 

sixty? eighty? or full time—endless, eternal 

youth and life? Moses was one hundred and 

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twenty years old and we are told that his eyes 
were not dim, neither was his natural force 
abated. Since man has a new body at certain 
intervals, there can be only one logical reason 
for that new body to look old, and that is the 
thought of age held in man’s consciousness. 

This amusing story is told: A census taker 
knocked at a certain door one morning. An 
old man (about eighty) answered and gave his 
name and age. The woman then asked him if 
there were any other people living there. His 
reply somewhat surprised her—“Yes, there is 
father.” She was not a little surprised, and 
asked—“Where is your father ?” The aged son 
replied, “He is upstairs putting grandfather to 
bed.” 

To the average reader it might seem as 
though I were giving this subject matter be¬ 
cause it is novel and entertaining. That, how¬ 
ever, is not true. I give it because I believe 
it and I am most serious in my good intentions. 
The story of the census taker may be received 
as humor, but here is what Dr. Frank Crane 

thinks of the “old age” thought: 

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“It is becoming more apparent every day 
that old age is an unnecessary evil. Men and 
women of eighty are daily distinguishing them¬ 
selves in various ways, as if to demonstrate 
that no one need die unless he so desires. 

Here is United States Senator Rebecca L. 
Felton, eighty-seven years of age, and actively 
engaged, as for the past forty years, in a dozen 
occupations including farming and politics. 

Here is Edward Payson Weston, at eighty- 
four, finishing a walk from Buffalo to New 
York in record time, his white hair flying and 
his firm cheeks rosy with the wind. 

In Danbury, Connecticut, W. H. Nelson, 
eighty-two, drove a trotter at the fair and won 
a heat to the tune of 2:11/4. 

- In England,, Lord Leverhulme, Britain’s 
seventy-one-year-old soap baron, is still rising 
at 4:30 in the morning and putting in an eigh¬ 
teen hour day. 

Mrs. Fannie Hazlett, a young thing , of 
eighty-five, has taken to aviation, and Mrs. 
Richardson, a mere girl of eighty-six, char¬ 
tered a special car to carry three generations 

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of Richardsons to New Haven to witness the 
Yale-Iowa game in the Bowl. 

What’s all this talk of growing old?” 
“Keeping young’’ will not be the unusual 
when man learns the secret. One of the most 
gratifying things of this age is that women are 
endeavoring to keep young with their daugh¬ 
ters. It is with some difficulty, today, that 
mother can be distinguished from daughter. 
What girls need today is a mother who can be 
a chum and boys need a pal in a father. A man 
was once asked by his small son to play ball 
with him. He replied, “Well, I am not too 
old. I may be stiff, but I will try.” 

There is a tendency in this age of ease for 
many people to drop into the rocking chair. 
This is a bad habit. First, it is too easy and 

comfortable, and secondly, one always has the 

> 

mental picture of grandmother knitting. Keep 
out of the rocking chair. One must keep ac¬ 
tive to keep in the consciousness of youth, for 
youth is very active. Remember the Spirit 
(within you) and the mind are ageless and 

timeless and your body is new, so that you can- 

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not possibly be over seven years old. As we 
think of this, we will drop more readily into 
the ‘‘seven-year-old boy” consciousness. The 
boy of seven is always active. Wear out if you 
must, but never rust out. 

I knew a man in Illinois, eighty years of age, 
travelling for a hardware firm in Chicago. He 
not only kept active physically, but mentally, 
for he was at that time taking a correspond¬ 
ence course in astronomy. Hitch your wagon 
to a star and you will climb. One often sees 
an active business man retire—then after a few 
years he “retires” permanently from this place 
of expression. Why? Because he died on top 
first, when he decided to stop mental activity. 
Death begins in the brain cells. Keep men¬ 
tally and physically active and you will retain 
your youth. Do not settle down, but keep 
moving, and since life is motion, motion will 
renew strength and vitality. 

“Never say die.” Worry is possibly the 
worst enemy of youth. We worry so needless¬ 
ly. I have often thought that some people 

would not be happy if they could not worry. 

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This, to be sure, is a very negative happiness. 
Let us make up our minds that come what 
may we will not worry. The things we worry 
over do not take place, and when they do, they 
are not as bad as they seemed. 

When we are called upon to face a crisis, if 
we have worried over it, we find upon meeting 
it that we have wasted our energy previously— 
very much like the man who ran to a fire; who 
found that after arriving he could do nothing 
because of fatigue. You may worry about 
everything in the world if you promise me that 
you will not worry about two things. This 
seems like such a reasonable offer, that I am 
sure you will agree. These are the two things 
you must not worry about—the things you 
can help and the things you cannot help. 
Worry kills; worry ages; worry breaks down 
the tissues. Work harder and worry less. 
The more you work the less you will worry. 
If the energy expended in worry were only 
wisely directed, we would succeed where now 
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“Grow old along with me, 

The best is yet to be, 

The last of life for which the first was made.’ , 

This may be beautiful sentiment, but I pre¬ 
fer not to grow old at all. If others wish to 
grow old they must be content to walk with¬ 
out my company. 

One must keep the age thought out. It is 
possible to do so, though most people are 
living in a world of time belief. “Make up 
your mind to make up your mind” and put 
power into your will to close the door of your 
mind against the belief in age. Instead of re¬ 
sisting gray hair if you are a woman, it is bet¬ 
ter to know that gray hair is really beautiful. 

To many a man with a bald head, this will 
be good news—A friend of mine who has more 
head than hair, told me that one must always 
remember that “grass never grows on a busy 
street.” 

The question of diet generally enters into 

the discussion of age and rightly so. Doctors 

tell us that we are “as old as our arteries”— 

these become hardened by overeating. We 

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eat too much. Less food and longer life is a 
never-failing rule. Two meals a day are suffi¬ 
cient for any normal person. Blood pressure 
will decrease as the amount of food for one’s 
daily diet is limited. There is also the advan¬ 
tage of economy to be considered—especially 
when food is expensive. Too many people 
live to eat, instead of eating to live. “We dig 
our graves with our teeth” is a truism. It is a 
physical fact that more food is eaten than the 
cells can absorb. Before they have an oppor¬ 
tunity to absorb the food, more is eaten, until 
they are clogged and choked. This food 
which has not been absorbed by the cells, goes 
into a state of decomposition and that is death. 

Are you all alive or have you been dying 
from old age (over-eating) for the last twenty 
years? The reason why we feel uncomfort¬ 
able after our meals is because the digestive 
organs are overtaxed. The blood and tissues 
are charged with poisonous gases, making us 
nervous, irritable and stupid. These are all 
symptoms of age and not of youth. The value 

of an occasional fast will thus be appreciated. 

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During this time the cells have an opportunity 
to absorb the surplus nourishment. 

Closely allied to the question of food is that 
of air or breathing. Many people use only one- 
third of their lungs, the remaining two-thirds 
dying for want of air. Youthfulness means 
deep breathing; the laughing, jumping, run¬ 
ning child is the breathing child. “Except ye 
become as little children, ye shall in no wise 
enter into the kingdom of eternal youth.” 

Scientists have given much of their atten¬ 
tion to the principle of elimination through 
the kidneys and bowels. Many now are admit¬ 
ting that the lungs should also be taken into 
consideration. How often we see this sign in 
front of some garage—“FREE AIR,” but how 
little we heed the sign of the time. More per¬ 
fect and complete elimination (which means 
a return to youth) will come about by increased 
respiration. “The breath is the instrument 
used for the circulation of the blood.” 

Science says: “The blood moves through 

the body because of the force from behind.” 

This force from behind is breath. The lungs 

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(with their muscles of respiration) and the 
diaphragm are the instruments for its use. 
The lung cells quickly make the exchange of 
carbon dioxide gas for oxygen, and this oxy¬ 
gen, carried through the tissues in the blood 
stream, burns up quickly (like a flame) the 
old, wornout materials of the body. Twenty- 
five per cent increase of oxygen in the blood 
stream will burn up all waste material, and 
leave it like white ashes to be carried away 
through the eliminary channels. 

The secret of old age is “carbonization.” 
The secret of youth is “oxygenation.’’ Old 
age (gradual death) is stagnation. There is 
only one reason or cause for so-called disease 
— congestion; one cure — circulation; one 
power behind circulation—BREATH. As you 
live normally (as God meant you to live) and 
keep your mind swept and garnished (clean), 
you will be renewed. The question of youth¬ 
fulness is of vital importance and is worth our 
sincere study. Do not believe all that you are 
told, but listen to your reason. 

People believe that when they are old they 

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will receive second sight, second hearing, a 
second set of teeth, etc. Is it not more reason¬ 
able to say that these things may be accom¬ 
plished while the cells are young? Drive out 
TODAY your belief in time and age. Remem¬ 
ber—relaxation is a great help in allowing the 
power of the endless life to flow through you. 
You do not live — you simply let life live 
through you. 

Relaxation is not a power in itself, but the 
open door through which the power (eternal, 
never-aging life) flows. One of the important 
aids toward keeping relaxed is to smile. The 
laugh cure has healed many. I once heard of 
a man who was told that he could not live, 
because of a so-called incurable disease. He 
decided that if he had to “pass on” he would 
go smiling. At first he smiled—then the smile 
broadened into a laugh. He laughed at every¬ 
thing—he laughed his way to health. 

Remember—it takes sixty-five muscles to 
make a frown, but only thirteen for a smile. 
Why work overtime? You are not paid for it. 

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There is a rule—“Don't say don’t.” I am 
going to break the rule and give a few “don’ts.” 

These “don’ts” will help: Don't fret; don't 
stew; don't scold; don't preach; don't envy; 
don't fear; don't hate; don't resist (wrinkles 
are caused by resisting). Don't talk dates. If 
you speak of 1876, 1893, 1900, etc., you are re¬ 
membering time, the remembrance of which 
strengthens the belief in age. This of necessity 
removes the possibility of another birthday. 

Let me quote you an oft-repeated statement 
and then let me correct it: “A woman is as 
old as she looks and a man is as old as he feels." 
Not so—you are as old as you are. There is no 
time with God; eternity is just one endless 


NOW. 


Eternal life is eternal youth; you have it— 


NOW! 


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WHITHER? 


Place . 

Time . 

Characters 


A Busy Street 

.Midday 

.Everyone 


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A chatter of voices; release from duty for 
one hour; a clatter of feet on the pavement; 
the twelve o'clock whistles blowing; “Extra, 
Paper!” from the newsies—lunch time is here! 

Overheard on the street—“Where are you 
going to lunch today?” “Have we time to go 
way up there?” “Yes, if we hurry.” “Is the 
car coming?” “No, we just missed one.” “I 
was detained ten minutes on the phone—that’s 
what made me late”—etc., etc. 

In the dining room—A feverish longing for 
service, coupled with a frequent glance at the 
clock. One individual, a clerical worker in a 
large office building down street, enters the res¬ 
taurant at 12:10 and at 12:30 makes his exit— 
whither? He knows not, except that he feels 
an accomplishment in having so quickly com¬ 
pleted his recent task. The remaining guests 
depart one by one, almost as quickly, deplor¬ 
ing the fact that they have no amusement upon 
which to focus their attention during the re¬ 
maining half hour. At last one o’clock comes 
with its message of “work and worry.” 


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II. 

Place.A Book Shop 

Time .Midday 

Character.A Successful 

Business Man, interested in Psy¬ 
chology and its Teaching. 

The dealer steps up to the prospective cus¬ 
tomer and an atmosphere of poise and deliber¬ 
ation floods the store. No one interrupts the 
conversation. 

“Interested in this line?’ 7 asks the proprie¬ 
tor, running his fingers over the section deal¬ 
ing with psychology and metaphysics. 

“Thought I’d refresh my interest in human 
nature,” said the visitor. “Eight hours of 
paper and pen rather dull the inspiration. 
Here’s a good thought—'Man digs his grave 
with his teeth.’ 

Isn’t that true? I wouldn’t take a million 
dollars for the lesson I have learned along that 
line. A year ago I ate a lumber-jack’s break¬ 
fast, as hearty a lunch and a heartier dinner. 
I, too, was a victim of 'eat and hurry,’ like the 

majority of my co-workers in the office, but 

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now I eat to live, instead of living’ to eat. I 
have a hearty breakfast, consisting of fruit, 
a cereal with good, rich milk, whole wheat 
bread and sweet butter and eggs. I am seated 
at my breakfast at 6:45 A. M. and at 7:30 I am 
ready to leave the table, having dined instead 
of eaten; having supplied my body with its 
needs until the evening meal. There is noth¬ 
ing like it. 

This book looks good. Here is something 
rich: 'Dive deep into the ocean of Intelligence 
and bring up your own pearls/ 

I used to depend on other people to give 
me advice; I lost too many good opportunities 
in that way. Now I go deep into my own men¬ 
tal resources and let the man within guide 
me. In this way I have no one to blame—no 
one to praise but myself. 

How wonderful and yet how practical is 
this idea of the hidden power in man/ 

A sound of laughter on the street—scores of 
workers hurrying back to their places of busi¬ 
ness. The interested customer looks at his 

watch—12:55. He has had a mental banquet; 

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a complete change from the regular routine; 
a vacation; a transformation bv the “renew- 

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ing of the mind.” 

(1) Promise yourself today and every day a 
certain period of time for the “renewing” of the 
mind. 

(2) Turn aside from the problems and cares 
of the day; give your brain cells a vacation. 

(3) Realize that you are not a parrot, living 
someone s else life — repeating someone s else 
zvords—you are YOURSELF. 

(4) Be WHAT you want to be. 

Be AS you want to be. 

People admire a natural person. 

(5) You are different from anyone else. 

Be YOURSELF! 

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MODERN SYNONYMS FOR LESS 
MODERN THOUGHTS 

(1) Sickness—wrong thought. 

(2) Fear—belief in duality. 

(3) Hate—low thought vibration. 

(4) Poverty—vicious habit. 

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(5) Worry—personal struggle. 

(6) Death—mental stagnation. 

(7) Discord—lack of ONE consciousness. 

(8) Self consciousness—belief in self. 

(9) Self condemnation—condemning God. 

(10) Jealousy—lack of understanding. 

(11) Discouragement—living on surface. 

(12) Sin—ignorance. 

(13) Dissatisfaction—longing for Truth. 

(14) Impatience—belief in time. 

(15) Intolerance—monopoly of belief. 

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PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE 

Truth is All; Truth is Eternity; “I AM”— 
eternal. Good is all there is—I expect only 
the Good. Mind is my only ancestor—I inherit 
perfect Mind. Truth is without cause, being 
Eternal—without effect, being All. 

I am not afraid of thoughts; Mind thinks, 
not man. 

Truth and Good are identical. 

The bubbles of fear burst in the atmosphere 
of Truth. 


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Life is the consciousness of Being. 

I love my enemies; therefore I have none 
at all. 

I am wretched when I neglect my Silence 
(God). 

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THIS HOUR 

Why should we ask to spy 

Beyond the Portals of Today; 

Does not this hour suffice, 

In it to work, to play? 

No question would I ask, 

The Past, the Future Thine; 

This hour is all I need 
To rise to heights divine. 

Nor shall I fear to face 
The perils of the night; 

For I shall enter with— 

This knowledge, “Thou art Light.” 

Upon life’s spiral path 
This NOW is all I see, 

And every day must draw 
Man closer then to Thee. 

—Ottilie Schroeder 

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A SIMPLE CREED 

What this troubled old world needs 
Is less of quibbling over creeds, 

Fewer words and better deeds. 

Less of "Thus and so shall you 
Think and act, and say and do.” 

More of "How may I be true?” 

Less of shouting: “I alone 
Have the right to hurl the stone.” 

More of heart that will condone. 

Less of dogmas, less pretense, 

More belief that Providence 
Will sanctify our common sense. 

More of chords of kindness blent 
O’er the discords of dissent. 

Then will come the great content. 

‘‘Just to be good, and to do good.” 
Simple, plain, for him who would— 

A Creed that may be understood. 

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 

Solomon asked for everything at once when 
he asked for Understanding. 

To him that hath (understanding) shall be 
given. Understanding is that which “stands 
under” everything. 

Sympathize with your friends but not with 
their troubles. 

Beware of prejudice; light is good in what¬ 
ever lamp it is burning. A rose is beautiful in 
whatsoever garden it may bloom. 

God does nothing for us but everything 
through us. 

Self conquest is by realization of the SELF. 

Love never keeps books. 

Read less and think more. 

Eat less and chew more. 

Preach less and practice more. 

You can, but will you? 

The more Truth we KNOW, the less we 
talk. 

The spoken word or the silent thought is 

released energy. Watch how you release it. 

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“LET” is the biggest word in our language. 

“If thine eye be single” means concentration. 

Beauty is not skin deep; it is soul deep. 

Don’t talk of your demonstrations too much. 
People are not interested and then you may 
have to prove them to yourself again. “See 
thou tell no man.” 

The Truth is not a religion nor a doctrine 
but a consciousness. 

All Mighty God—not Almighty God. 

More than to overcome, we need to “be- come.” 

As Ether is the connecting link between 
matter and Spirit, so Mind is the connecting 
link between SELF and the environment. By 
thinking of this, you will note the importance 
of watching all the activities of Mind. 

If Good is all and evil is nothing why do 
people spend so much valuable time talking 
about NOTHING? 

Truth has its price and we do have to give 
up something for it. We must give up talk¬ 
ing about negative things. Have you paid the 
price? 

A teacher said not long ago—“Everybody 

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gets up in the morning, but few wake up.” I 
heard another person say, “Many are called, 
but few wake up.” 

ARE YOU AWAKE? 

Israel might be written—“Is Real.” Are 
you an “Is real ite?” 

The river makes its own shores; so do we. 

Are they too narrow? 

♦ 

Good enough is bad enough until it is our 
“best.” 

Universe is Uni Verse—not D1 VERSE. 

Things vibrate to thought because they are 
thought. 

Success IS. 

Take a mental vacation from negative think¬ 
ing this year. 

STOP stealing from yourself. 

You cannot get something for nothing. 

St. Augustine's ladder was: 

I WILL. 

I CAN. 

I KNOW. 

I AM. 

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SOME COMMON ERRORS 

Fourteen of the mistakes in life are: 

To expect to set up your own standard of 
right and wrong and expect everybody to con¬ 
form to it. 

To try to measure the enjoyment of others 
by our own. 

To expect uniformity of opinion in this 
world. 

To look for judgment and experience in 
youth. 

To endeavor to mold the dispositions of 
everybody alike. 

Not to yield in unimportant trifles. 

To worry ourselves and others about what 
cannot be remedied. 

Not to alleviate if we can all that needs allev¬ 
iation. 

Not to make allowances for the weaknesses 
of others. 

To consider anything impossible simply be¬ 
cause we ourselves happen to be unable to per¬ 
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To believe only what our finite minds can 
grasp. 

To live as if the moment, the time, the day 
were so important that it would live forever. 

To estimate people by some outside quality, 
for it is that within which makes the man. 

PERSONALITY 

The word appears frequently in our conver¬ 
sation these days. We are urged to think much 
of it and we do. The great teachers of the 
past have sounded a warning. Their warn¬ 
ing was not to the effect that we should love 
self less, but that we should love “Self” more. 
Individuality is the real “ Self personality is the 
little false self. In reality there is only “One Self’ 
—that is God. Individuality means something 
that cannot be divided. Personality is the 
globe through which the light shines, but it is 
not the light. Too many people have given 
undue care to the globe and have neglected 
the realization of the Light. 

“I AM” is the real self (Individuality). “I 

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AM”—the Light of the world. I would not 
have people care less for their personal appear¬ 
ance, but more for God (Individuality)—then 
all things are cared for well. Most people 
spend more on the frame than they do on the 
picture; many who would not spend a dollar 
for a good book waste it foolishly. 

Thinking that personality is the real Self has 
caused all the trouble through which the world 
has passed. It has caused war, murder, theft, 
hate, jealousy, poverty, disease and death. 
“Sensing the allness of God and leaving out 
all trace of personality, if earnestly engaged in, 
will permanently remove every difficulty from 
my path/’ This is the greatest affirmation and 
one which will revolutionize society if realized. 
Trying to like or love people is difficult unless 
you love the God in them. How easy you can 
heal them when you know that that is all there 
is in them. The first and great commandment 
is this—“Love the Lord thy God with ALL 
thy heart.” 

Stop looking at people; stop serving man 

and remember there is only one name whereby 

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we can be saved—“I AM.” Your name really 
is “I AM.” If you were to write what you have 
always claimed to be your name, properly, you 
would write “I AM”—John Smith. John Smith 
is just the name they gave you so that you 
could receive your mail. How much human 
suffering would be abolished if personalities 
could only be left out of our conversation! 
What a coward a man is to say something 
about another when the other person is not 
there to defend himself! What untold misery 
is caused not only for the one who is talked 
about, but for the one who talks it. 

Don’t drag people into your conversation. 
Talk of things, objects and thoughts—but not 
of people. Many who will follow this friendly 
advice are not going to talk as much in the 
future. The smallest minds occupy themselves 
with persons. Do not report ill of others. 
Dwell on the good side. If newspapers would 
only report the good deeds done instead of the 
false, how soon the Kingdom would be real¬ 
ized. There are family boards where a con¬ 
stant process of depreciation, assigning mo- 

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tives and cutting up character goes forward. 
They are not pleasant places. One who is 
healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting 
table. Keep the atmosphere pure and frag¬ 
rant with gentleness and charity. Don’t go 
around looking for the faults in man, but look 
for the God in him. 

A visitor to a famous pottery establishment 
was puzzled by an operation that seemed aim¬ 
less. In one room there was a mass of clay 
beside a workman. Every now and then he 
took up a large mallet and struck several sharp 
blows on the surface of the lump. 

Curiosity led to the question, “Why do you 
do that?” 

“Wait and see,!’ was the reply. 

The stranger obeyed and soon the top of the 
mass began to heave and swell. Bubbles 
formed upon its face. 

“Now, sir, you will see,” said the modeler, 
with a smile. “I could never shape the clay 
into a vase if these air bubbles were in it; there¬ 
fore, I gradually beat them out.” 

It sounded in the visitor’s ears like an alle- 

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gory. Is not the discipline of life, so hard 
sometimes to bear, just a beating out of the 
bubbles of pride and self-will, so that the mod¬ 
eler may form the vessel ? 

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WISDOM IN BRIEF 

The difficulty with the world is not that peo¬ 
ple do not know of God, but that they do not 
know what God is. 

The only burden Man has is “his own word/’ 

'‘Jesus Christ is Man’s idea of God and God’s 
idea of Man.” 

Many are called; few “get up.” 

"Too many people know their nerves, in¬ 
stead of the man behind the wires.” 

Laughter is a shock absorber. 

"Most every one is educated as to physi¬ 
ology. We need not know so much about the 
machine as about the operator.” 

"Know thyself.” 

A perfect future is the modern idea of fate. 

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Being in tune with the Infinite, brings us 
“en rapport” with Omniscience. 

Which are you thinking—“I want;” “I 
have;” or “I AM?” 

God is Being—be-ing perfect. 

The manifest—exists. 

The Unmanifest—IS. 

Our old Jerusalem must be so fully destroyed 
that ‘"there shall not be left one stone upon 
another that shall not be thrown down,” be¬ 
fore we can come into our new Jerusalem— 
spiritual consciousness. 

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“DETOURS” 

As yet, there has not been found one mot¬ 
orist who enjoys seeing the sign “Detour.” It 
means for him the long and the hard way. 
For some reason, the straight, smooth road 
has been closed, and he is asked to go out of 
his way and in the bargain is asked to endure 
the difficulties entailed in such a procedure. 

When one lives an emotional life, he is con- 

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stantly making detours, going the hard, diffi¬ 
cult, “round about” way. 

The people who close the day with the ex¬ 
pression, “I am so weary,” are generally emo¬ 
tional people. They do no great work but 
allow their energy to leak away in the emo¬ 
tions. A man may rise from his bed in the 
morning, feeling refreshed, with one hundred 
per cent of energy. One of the important 
things is to know what he is going to do with 
it. He cannot go on drawing from his battery 
and still have the same amount of power. 

A woman cannot go shopping with one hun¬ 
dred dollars in her purse, spend ten dollars in 
nine different stores and expect to have one 
hundred dollars left at the close of the day. 
This is what many people do expect, however 
illogical and unreasonable it may sound. 

One cannot go on wasting energy in emo¬ 
tions and still have it for constructive work. 
Instead of speaking and doing things from the 
“I AM” (generative center of all energy) they 
make detours, going by way of small towns 

with rough roads. A few of the towns may be 

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mentioned—Fear, Worry, Indecision, Anger, 
Hate, Doubt. These towns are all in the state 
of Emotion. 

The need is to have the conscious contact 
with Self—“I AM.” 

Nature has so arranged things that she al¬ 
ways gives man reserve power. Consider how 
she gives man a double set of engines so that 
if one is not one hundred per cent efficient, 
the other is waiting to serve. These are the 
engines—kidneys, lungs, arms, legs, feet, 
hands, eyes, ears, jaws, etc., and even where 
the organ is single it is divided, such as the 
nose. All nature is saying, “Reserve”—“Con¬ 
serve” and man has been prodigal in wasting 
this energy of life. Many people are like the 
steamboat that was forced to stop every time 
she blew her whistle. Few have enough power 
to keep “talking” and “doing.” The old col¬ 
ored preacher was right when he said, “The 
more you talk about it the less you are going 
to do.” 

The little things of life count most. They 

count most, not because of their size, but be- 

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cause they are neglected in our consideration. 
Many little leaks will sink a great ship and 
many a great character has gone down through 
the little leaks of energy called hate, anger, 
fear, sentiment, worry, jealousy, hysteria, in¬ 
decision, depression, moodiness, excessive joy. 

It might seem rather unusual to put exces¬ 
sive joy on the list and still it must remain 
there. So few people can boast of ‘‘Peace” 
and “Calm" in prosperity. It is generally at 
that time that they give way to the emotions 
and make a “detour.” Then follows the reac¬ 
tion generally known as “crying for joy.” This 
is needless. One should meet triumph and 
disaster alike and "treat those two impostors 
just the same.” The emotional person is not 
a deep person, for deep waters run quietly. 
Jesus likened them unto plants, “having no 
root in themselves.” They are the people who 
live on the surface and know little or nothing 
of the deep things of the “I AM.” 

Just here the value of the Silence will be rec¬ 
ognized. The emotional person is emotional 

because of ignorance. There is just one form 

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of ignorance and that is not knowing the Truth. 
Truth is “I AM/’ So we may say that emo¬ 
tionalism is caused when the individual does 
not know “I AM.” Emotional people have a 
very strong belief in personality instead of in¬ 
dividuality. They think they are doing their 
work in their own strength instead of allow¬ 
ing the great ‘T AM”—Power” to work 
through them easily and quietly. To excuse 
yourself in some way is not enough. After 
making a ten-mile detour over hard roads you 
will find little comfort in saying, “Well, I did 
not see the sign directing me—‘straight 
ahead/ ” 

Here is the sign post for every traveler-— 
“ ‘Go Within’ to the shortest, most comfort¬ 
able road to Health, Wealth and Happiness.” 

“I AM”—PEACE.” 

“I AM”—CALM.” 

“I AM.” 


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VICTORY 

'‘When you are forgotten, or neglected, or 
purposely set at naught, and you smile with 
your heart at rest, 

THAT IS VICTORY. 

When your good is evilly spoken of, your 
wishes crossed, your task offended, your advice 
ridiculed, and you take it all in patient, loving 
silence 

THAT IS VICTORY. 

When you are firm in difficulties and su¬ 
perior in adversity, 

THAT IS VICTORY. 

When you fully realize that the love of God 
is the beginning of wisdom, 

• THAT IS VICTORY. 

When you lament not the loss of what you 
cannot retrieve, 

THAT IS VICTORY. 

When you are content with simple, plain 
food, any climate, any solitude, any interrup¬ 
tion, 

THAT IS VICTORY.” 

—Truth Messenger. 


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IT TAKES COURAGE TO 

Live according* to your convictions. 

To be what you are; not pretend to be what 
you are not. 

To live within your means. 

Not to return evil for evil. 

To be talked about and remain silent. 

To say “NO” when others say “Yes.” 

Not to bend the knee to popular prejudice. 

A word unspoken is like a sword in the scab¬ 
bard—thine; if vented, thy sword is in an¬ 
other’s hand. 

It isn’t enough to have a goal. You must 
have a path to it. 

Beside an object in life, you need a program. 

Don’t just expect to do something—DO IT. 

Push your work but do not let it push you. 

Stop just trying to succeed—Succeed. 

Watch your step? No—Watch your con¬ 
sciousness. 

Simplicity, in Truth, is less dependent upon 

external things than we imagine. It can live 

in broadcloth or homespun; it can eat white 

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bread or black. It is not from without but 

from within. 

Two-thirds of our failures come from trying 

to do too many things at once. “This one thing 

I do” is concentration. 

“THE ALL IN ALL” 

“Thou great eternal Infinite, the great un¬ 
bounded whole, 

Thy body is the universe; Thy Spirit is the 
Soul. 

If Thou dost fill immensity; if Thou art All 
in All, 

If Thou was’t here before I was, I am not here 
at all. 

How could I live outside of Thee? Dos’t Thou 
fill earth and air? 

There surely is no place for me outside of 
everywhere. 

If Thou art God and Thou dos’t fill immensity 
of space, 

Then I am of God, think as you will, or else 
I have no place. 


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Re-creation 

Who Wants to Retrogradef 
No One. 

Who Wants to Progressf 
Everyone. 

To be re-created is to repent. To repent is 
to change your mind. To change your mind 
is to strengthen your mental power. 

1. Play golf. 

2. Play ball. 

3. Play horseshoes. 

4. Swim. 

5. Ride horseback. 

6. Hike. 

7. Dance. 

8. Skate. 

9. Row. 

10. Use Indian clubs. 

11. Use a punching bag. 

12. Whistle. 

13. Sing. 

14. Laugh. 

15. Think positively. 

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16. Speak positively. 

17. Act positively. 

18. Be positive. 

TURN THE TIDE! 

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THREE GATES 

If you are tempted to reveal 
A tale someone to you has told 
About another, make it pass, 

Before you speak, three gates of gold. 

These narrow gates—first, “Is it true?’’ 

Then, “Is it needful ?” In your mind 
Give truthful answer. And the next 
Is last and narrowest—“Is it kind?” 

And if to reach your lips at last, 

It passes through these gateways three, 
Then you may tell the tale, nor fear 
What the result of speech may be. 

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BE GLAD 

There was a man who smiled 
Because the day was bright; 

Because he slept at night; 

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Because God gave him sight 
To gaze upon his child! 

Because his little one 
Could leap and laugh and run; 
Because the distant sun 
Smiled on the earth, he smiled. 

He toiled and still was glad 

Because the air was free; 

Because he loved, and she 

That claimed his love and he 

Shared all the joys they had! 

Because the grasses grew; 

Because the sweet wind blew; 

Because that he could hew 

And hammer he was glad! 

—S. E. Kiser. 

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LATENT POWER 

We speak often of latent power, but do we 
realize just what the term implies? There are 
infinite powers lying dormant in man; powers 
which, could he but catch a glimpse of them, 
would endow his life on this planet with great 
force. 

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Man does not express all that is in him. The 
real man is 100 per cent in power, but often 
only expresses 15 per cent efficiency. He goes 
on through life meeting the duties he is sup¬ 
posed to perform, in a mechanical way. He 
very seldom puts all his power into his work. 
It is not that he is conserving, but simply that 
he does not realize this hidden energy within 
him. He looks for help outside of Self when 
it is within. The crisis or emergency demand¬ 
ing all his power reveals the hidden strength 
and ability. 

Nearly every man who has achieved success 
will tell you that at some period of his life he 
was called upon to assume certain responsibili¬ 
ties, and then at that time, much to his sur¬ 
prise, he discovered that he could do it. It 
was something within that came to his rescue; 
something that came as an extra supply of 
energy. It really was his reserve supply. 

All nature works on the principle of reserve. 
The ant and bee always keep more than they 

need. Flowers and trees fling to the ground 

thousands of seeds that never germinate, but 

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lest the few fail, nature calls on her reserve 
power. 

When you consider the human body, she has 
endowed it with extra engines as reserve—two 
eyes, ears, arms, limbs, lungs, etc. There is al¬ 
ways the hidden power held in reserve in case 
of an emergency or crisis. 

Napoleon’s reserves failed to appear at the 
crucial moment, and his dream was not real¬ 
ized. Runners and jumpers summon this la¬ 
tent power at the last moment to carry them 
across the bar or tape. Hawthorne lost his 
position, and when money was needed his wife 
said, “Why don’t you write now? You have 
always wanted to.” Then in the crisis he 
looked to himself within, and, calling forth his 
reserve power, wrote “The Scarlet Letter.” 

A man at the age of thirty-eight had spent 
his life in active business and professional 
work. The thought of writing for the public 
had never occurred to him. All of a sudden, 
by one of those strange upheavals that come 
into the lives of men, all was carried away from 

him. His health was shattered, his accumula- 

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tions were swept away, he was apparently lift¬ 
ed up and placed in a new, strange and seem¬ 
ingly unpromising environment. He had his 
family to support—he had practically nothing 
left with which to do it. His health was 
broken, and it was impossible for him to re¬ 
engage in his accustomed occupation. While 
building up his health, he helped a new friend 
to get the mechanical part of a monthly maga¬ 
zine in shape. At the last moment his friend 
discovered that they were short several pages 
of matter, and the printers were impatiently 
asking for their full supply. The friend was 
too busily occupied to write the additional mat¬ 
ter, and so, in desperation, he turned to my 
friend and said, ‘‘Did you ever write anything 
for publication ?” “No,” was the answer. 

“Well, somebody has got to write something, 
and mighty quick, too. Have you nerve 
enough to try it?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Fm 
like the boy digging for a woodchuck, who was 
asked whether he expected to catch it, and who 
replied, ‘You bet I do—we’ve got the preacher 

for dinner, and no meat in the house—Fve just 

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got to catch that woodchuck.’ And so like the 
boy. I’ve just got to, and I can and I will!” 
And he did. 

He satj down to write to fill that space, al¬ 
though he had never written a line for publica¬ 
tion before. He made a mighty effort of his 
will, urged on by an imperative desire, and 
almost in a daze he found his hand at work 
writing, easily and rapidly. Before long the 
article was turned out—and it was good. This 
success led to others, and that man has been 
writing books, editing magazines and doing 
other work of that kind for the past seven 
years, and he has been successful all along the 
line. 

There are two great difficulties with most 
people. The first is: They do not realize that 
there is this power within them. The second 
is: When they do know that it is within them 
they do not know how to make their contact 
with it. 

All the power in the world is useless to you 

unless you make your contact with it. A horse 

and a wagon are useful only as you hitch the 

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horse to or connect him with the wagon. Gas¬ 
oline is a form of energy; an automobile is a 
very practical means of locomotion, but not 
until the gasoline is put into the tank of the 
automobile will it become of use. 

Many of the people on the Pacific coast real¬ 
ized that there was great power in the wind 
that blew in from the ocean. They could see 
that it represented a form of energy, but it did 
not help them until they build old Dutch wind¬ 
mills. Then, after harnessing the power, it 
pumped water for their truck gardens. 

It is not enough to know about the inner 
power; one must touch it and so open himself 
that this energy will flow through him into the 
activities of the objective world. As man goes 
into the Silence for the purpose of meeting 
himself, he may, with practice, make a con¬ 
tact. When this is done, life becomes harmon¬ 
ious and things are accomplished in a relaxed 
manner. YOU are bigger than you think you 
are, and since mind is the connecting link be¬ 
tween Self and the environment, it is necessary 
that you thing rightly. 

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P 

Why do we insist on believing in good and 
evil? 

Why do we always pray for the best and look 
for the worst ? 

Why do we not give more time to realizing 
the power within? 

Why do we live in the future instead of in 
the present? 

Why do we think that some days have to be 
“blue”? 

Why do we not see others as we should like 
to have them see us? 

Why do we try so hard to create a better 
world than the one which God declared “very 
good”? 

Why do we think that failure is natural? 

Why do we look back to “the good old 
days”? 

Why are we afraid to be happy? 


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WISDOM'S WAYS 

One ship sails east and another sails west. 
With the selfsame winds that blow. 

’Tis the set of the sails and not the gales 
That determine the way they go. 

As the ways of the sea are the ways of fate, 
As we voyage along through life, 

*Tis the act of the soul that determines the 
goal, 

And not the calm or the strife. 

—Author Unknown. 


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THE WORLD IS HIS WHO HAS 

PATIENCE 

This is an Italian proverb. Perhaps you 
think it sounds more like the slower and more 
ponderous Germans; but think of the bound¬ 
less patience lavished by the great Italians on 
their cathedrals and statues and paintings and 
poems! Italy is the land of genius, and genius 
and patience are first cousins, if not brothers. 

The very word “patience” came from Italy. 

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It was born of the Latin verb which means “to 
suffer You see why at once: It is the suf¬ 
ferers that have most need of patience, and 
generally it is they that are most patient. 

But are the Italians right when they say, 
“The world is his who has patience”? At first 
sight it looks as if they were wrong; as if the 
way to succeed were to rush ahead impatiently, 
elbow competitors out of the way, snatch up 
the prizes, and make off with them as quickly 
as possible. If you are not promoted in one 
place, hunt another. If you are not getting 
rich in one business, change your occupation. 
Patience has ceased to be a virtue in these 
hustling days. 

Nevertheless, the Italians are right. The 
world does not belong to the hustlers, it be¬ 
longs to the patient plodders. When Edison 
is at work on one of his mighty problems, he 
thinks nothing of going forty-eight hours with¬ 
out food or sleep. Tennyson is said to have 
written his lovely song, “Come Into the Gar¬ 
den, Maud,” no fewer than fifty times, and he 

revised even his printed poems again and again. 

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Lowell, after he had sent a poem to ‘'The At¬ 
lantic Monthly/’ would follow it up with letter 
after letter ordering changes made in it to im¬ 
prove it. These great men have won the world 
by their genius, to be sure, but they have car¬ 
ried patience up to the level of genius. So 
have all that have written their names upon 
the scroll of fame. 

One reason why the world belongs to the 
patient man is because it is a patient world. 
President Cleveland was a dauntless toiler, la¬ 
boring at his desk long after all the other in¬ 
habitants of the White House were fast asleep; 
President Roosevelt could get through an un¬ 
believable amount of work, and his appetite 
for it was insatiable; but Old Mother Nature 
puts us all to shame, busy at her tasks day 
and night, summer and winter, taking no sleep 
and no vacation. God is endlessly patient, and 
he loves to see patience in his creatures. 

Another reason why patience brings pros¬ 
perity, is because long time must go into the 
making of anything that is to last for a long 

time. The swift-growing plant fades as 

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swiftly. Sand-hills blown up by the winter’s 
winds are blown down by the summer’s 
breezes; while the mountains, built by the ages, 
last through the ages. Poems that are “just 
dashed off,” are promptly sent back by the edi¬ 
tor. Inventions that are born over-night lan¬ 
guish in the patent office. It takes time to 
make something that can conquer time. 

Youth is naturally impatient. You must 
overcome that tendency, young folks, if you 
would succeed. Make up your mind that the 
task you would undertake is worth doing, and 
then forget everything in the doing of it. Be 
willing to suffer, if your patience must be true 
to its original meaning. Be willing to do any¬ 
thing—but fail. 

NOT IN OUR STARS BUT IN HABITS 

Our fate is written not in the stars, but in 

our habits. A man who has been industrious 

till he is forty, would not know how to be lazy. 

If he has lived purely and thought purely, the 

shafts of impurity fall helpless against his 

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armor. And on the other hand, it is practically 
a miracle if in middle life one conquers evil 
habits and starts a life of uprightness. Destiny 
is not a power outside ourselves, compelling 
our reluctant obedience. It is made up of 
choices, which in turn decide our habits, and 
these are the true arbiters of life. 

They tell us an iron will is a very fine thing. 
A great General rules his forces by his will. A 
Parliamentary leader drives recalcitrant mem¬ 
bers into the right lobby by his will, if he has 
it. Napoleon, they say, controlled all France 
by his will. I have long had doubts. 

Napoleon never had to get an obstinate don¬ 
key out of the way of an express train, for 
there were no express trains, but had the task 
confronted him I doubt whether the iron will 
that conquered France would have removed 
the donkey. Nay, I do not doubt; I am cer¬ 
tain it would not. And since men are a great 
deal more stupid and more obstinate than don¬ 
keys I am sure it was not by an iron will alone 
that Napoleon ruled the French. 

The iron will only served to rule himself, to 

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keep him hard and incessantly at the working 
out of his great idea, the idea of convincing 
men that he was the ablest among them; that 
by following him they did best for themselves. 

& & & 

REMEDY YOUR DEFICIENCIES 

Some people overlook their deficiencies. A 
girl who has applied for a position as a teacher 
and failed to secure it, has no idea that she 
owes her disappointment to her careless habits 
of dress, or her almost illegible chirography. 
She ought to know her weak points better than 
any one else, but her eye-sight, good enough 
in ordinary things, fails entirely when it comes 
to discovering her own weaknesses. 

Others see their deficiencies, but excuse 
them. They are wretched spellers, but spell¬ 
ing doesn’t come easy to them. They are seen 
with dusty clothes and muddy boots, and ex¬ 
plain that they didn’t have time to “fix up.” 
One who can always find an excuse for a de¬ 
ficiency is as badly off as if he failed to dis¬ 
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When you recognize a lack in yourself, set 
about correcting it. Physical weakness, lack 
of educational advantages, faults of character 
and disposition can all be remedied by the one 
who will not spare pains to make himself or 
herself a little nearer the ideal of manhood 
or womanhood. 

£ & 

THOUGHTS 

“I let GO-D.” 

You don’t have to die to go to heaven; you 
simply change your mind. 

“I AM” and “I” will demonstrate that “I 
AM”—success. 

When you feel disturbed, stop and rest for 
at least a minute and say, “Peace—Peace- 
Peace.” 

“I AM”—within. 

Since God is Spirit, His manifestations must 
be spiritual. 

Things are but mental concepts; there is 
nothing but God’s ideas passing before us. 

The Substance out of which all things are 

made, is within our own minds. 

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You are the sum total of all your thoughts 
—nothing more; nothing less. 

“I AM” the “I AM.” 

Nothing can come into your aura, except 
what is there. 

We think and mind reflects what we think. 
We neutralize when we deny. 
Demonstrations are not made through effort. 

v# & s 

troubles? 

“If we could hang our troubles and tears in 
the yard to air and dry; 

And then a breeze would come along, and blow 
them all awry; 

Perhaps most of them would be blown so thin, 

We never would bother to take them back in.” 

From R. Mavme Robinson’s book, 

* 

“Life’s Rosary, and Other Ballads of 
Truth.” 

S V* 

“A GREAT DAY” 

“Great morning, isn’t it?” called a cheery 

business man to a passer-by as he hurried 

down the steps of his home to catch a train. 

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“Why, so it is,” thought the man hailed, 
looking up in surprise from his moody con¬ 
templation of the sidewalk. And unconscious¬ 
ly he straightened his shoulders and stepped 
out more briskly as he went on his way. 

“Great morning, isn’t it?” said the business 
man to a bootblack as he stopped for a shine. 
And the urchin gave a vigorous polish to a 
spot on the heel he had been minded to leave 
unshined, and whistled as he went away. 

“Great day, isn’t it?” said the man to the 
stenographer as he entered his office. And the 
girl’s fingers flew faster and the keys clicked 
merrily and the tired eyes smiled as she worked 
that day. 

“It has been a great day," said the man to 
his wife as, business over, he sank with a sigh 
of comfort into the easy chair at home. 

And the recording angel, closing the account 
of that man’s day, smiled and echoed softly, 
“A great day.” 


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THE BUSY MAN 

If you want to get a favor done 
By some obliging friend, 

And want a promise, safe and sure, 

On which you may depend, 

Don’t go to him who always has 
Much leisure time to plan, 

But if you want your favor done, 
fust ask the busy man. 

The man with leisure never has 

A moment he can spare. 

He’s always “putting off” until 

His friends are in despair. 

But he whose every waking hour 

Is crowded full of work 

Forgets the art of wasting time— 

He cannot stop to shirk. 

• 

So when you want a favor done, 

And want it right away, 

Go to the man who constantly 

Works thirty hours a day. 

He’ll find a moment, sure, somewhere, 

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That has no other use, 

And fix you, while the idle man 
Is framing an excuse. 

—By W. H. Willis. 

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PEACE 

The simplest things in life are the greatest. 
Come with me into the inner temple, where 
there is Peace. 

This is the New Year—a time for “new ; ’ 
resolutions, but also a time for re~“newing’’ 
the mind. 

Nothing will satisfy us; nothing will content 
us; nothing will remain for us, until we have 
learned the secret of a peaceful nature. 

So many people associate the word “peace” 
with the idea of inactivity, which is not true. 
The world is hungry for the realization of poise 
and calmness. Why? Because the exhilara¬ 
tion that comes with “hurry and worry;” ac¬ 
quisition and attainment, wears off unless one 
is on terra firma; the ground of understanding. 

Those whom we admire most; those who 

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bring inspiration to us, are those who have 
their house “built on a rock,” upon which the 
winds of misfortune may blow and the waves 
of opposition may beat with no effect. 

We may be seeking health; we may be seek¬ 
ing happiness or good fortune, but not until 
we ‘‘become as little children,” have we begun 
to become receptive to our good. 

When we were children, we said, “Father, 
the teacher said we should all bring valentines 
tomorrow. Will you let me buy some?” Fa¬ 
ther said not a word but nodded his consent. 
That put an end to any doubt in our mind con¬ 
cerning our part in the valentine party—AND 
—we received an abundant supply. 

If we, in our present stage of childhood— 
for we are only children grown tall and should 
have acquired more faith as we have “risen" 
—would accept our desires as evidence that 
our Father (Original Cause) knows already 
what we need, how peacefully our good would 
become manifest. 

A short time ago I wrote a letter to a stu¬ 
dent, who was apparently paralyzed (through 

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too much personal endeavor) and concluded 
with this statement, “Remember—you must 
realize that the world will run itself perfectly.” 

Personal ambition—struggle—tension—all 
lead us like so many prodigal sons, away from 
our “inner guide” (the Father) until we think 
that we are entirely cut off from our supply. 
The moment that we have been defeated physi¬ 
cally and financially (for both these so-called 
evils work together), we are forced to confess 
our sins (ignorance of Nature’s laws). As we 
lose the false pride (belief in personal success), 
we become a part of the great Cosmic family 
and in that consciousness we “ask and do re¬ 
ceive.” 

Let me impress upon your mind this fact— 
when you allow the great Creative Mind with¬ 
in you to direct your ways, you will NOT lose 
your individuality nor your personality. On 
the contrary, your individuality will come forth 
unhindered and your personality will be charm¬ 
ing in its simplicity. 

I have in mind a student, engaged in pro¬ 
fessional work in a certain city. This indi- 

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vidual stated to me that the greatest realiza¬ 
tion she had received was of “the peace that 
passeth understanding.” She put into actual 
practice these words of the great Master, 
“Whosoever loseth his life (belief in personal 
struggle) for my sake (the Impersonal), find- 
eth it.” Within three months, this student 
received a lucrative position—the opportunity 
of a life time. Why? Because she had the 
universe working for her, instead of against 
her —an inheritance, instead of a tug-of-war. 

“All things work together for Good to them 
who love (are devoted to) God (the Impersonal 
Life).” 

Begin now to be childlike in your faith. 
Peace be with you! 

& < s 

BEACON LIGHTS 

If the other fellow is getting the best of you 
—Stick! He will if you don’t. 

The successful are they who SEE and DO 
—the unsuccessful are they who SEE —and do 
NOT do. 


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We need some one to believe in us—if we do 
well, we want our work commended, our faith 
corroborated. The individual who thinks well 
of you, who keeps his mind on your good qual¬ 
ities, and does not look for daws, is your friend. 
Who is my brother? I’ll tell you—he is the 
one who recognizes the good in me.—Elbert 
Hubbard. 

The world would be both better and brighter 
if we would dwell on the duty of happiness, as * 
well as on the happiness of duty.—Sir J. Lub¬ 
bock. 

The man who has push discovers within a 
few years that he doesn’t need a pull. 

Adversity is not the worst thing in life. Ad¬ 
versity is the turn in the road; it is not the 
end of the trail. 

“TUNE UP” 

IS seems like a very small unimportant 
word. It is spoken so frequently in the con¬ 
versation of the day, that one passes over it 
often without thinking. Accept this as being 

true, that if we are once convinced that God 

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15, we shall know the “ISNESS” of things 
and be free. 

Either God is, or God is not. “He that com- 
eth to God must believe that he is.” (Heb. 11 

16. ) Then all that God is, remains changeless. 
We are hearing much these days of the theory 
of relativity. In this theory we are informed 
that all things are relative. Motion is relative 
to something that is fixed. We are never sure 
of activity, until we relate it to that which is 
permanent. We know that God is the same 
yesterday, today and forever. “But Thou art 
the same.” Psalm 102:27. “For I am the 
Lord, I change not.” (Mai. 3:6.) 

God is Life, Love, Power, Success, Truth, 
etc. Coming to God and believing that He is, 
is also believing that Life, Love, Power, Suc¬ 
cess, Truth—IS. They never change. Man’s 
consciousness may change but Life, Love, 
Power, Success, Truth—NEVER. 

To illustrate, the life in you today was there 
yesterday, and it is just the same. If it does 
not appear the same, remember it is your con¬ 
sciousness of IT, that has changed. 

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Health, Strength, Joy, Peace, have not 
changed; they abide forever. 

Since all IS, there is nothing to demonstrate. 
People speak of demonstrating health, wealth, 
happiness and youth. There is nothing to 
demonstrate, but all to realize. God IS. You 
are always strong, abounding in plenty; happy 
and young. 

Life never changes; then you are not old. 
The life in you is God. Has God grown old? 
“Watch and pray.” WATCH YOUR CON¬ 
SCIOUSNESS. 

The word demonstrate, generally understood, 
implies the thought that we change something. 
All is the same, yesterday, today and forever. 
Remember since there is nothing to demonstrate 
—“All is to be realized.” 

In the first chapter of the world’s greatest 
book we are told that God looked upon the 
world, brought into visible manifestation, and 

called it “Very Good." What is there to dem¬ 
onstrate? 

The world is not to be reformed, since it is 

informing him as to what he is, who he is and 

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Let us transform the consciousness of man, by 
informing him as to what he is, who he is and 
as to his TRUE condition. He will then real¬ 
ize Reality. 

We ought not to change the world if we 
could, and we could not if we would. 

Sooner or later all men will arrive at this 
place of understanding. That is, we shall say 
that Jesus meant what he said, and said what 
he meant, when he spoke these words—“It is 
finished.” He did not mean as many have im- 

j 

agined, that his life was finished. Anyone 
with the slightest degree of understanding, 
would not accept that. He meant that he had 
crossed out the lie—the lie the world had be¬ 
lieved too long, namely—that there is some¬ 
thing beside God. Dent. 4:35 “The Lord He 
IS GOD; there is none else beside Him/' 

Truth IS—there is no error. Life IS— 
there is no death. Health IS—there is no sick¬ 
ness. Success IS—there is no failure. The lie 

is finished. The false man who judges accord¬ 
ing to the seeming, says—“It does not look as 

if the lie is finished.” It IS. “Judge not ac- 

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cording to the appearance, but judge righteous 
judgment.” John 7:24. Reality never 
changes. 

I may take a pair of field glasses, and look 
at the clock in the distant tower. The appear¬ 
ance is that the clock is very close. I may 
reverse the glasses and the appearance is that 
the clock is removed farther away. It has not 
changed its position; it IS just the same. Life, 
Love, Power, Success and Truth may seem to 
change, but they remain realities. “Reality is 
permanence.” 

The secret of great power is to know that 
God IS. All that is needed is the adjustment 
of consciousness to Reality, not the demonstra¬ 
tion of Reality. The following illustration may 
serve to make this clear: A violinist is to play 
before an audience. He is to be accompanied 
by a pianist. The violinist is very exact, and 
gives much time and thought to adjusting the 
strings of his violin to the perfect pitch of the 
piano. The piano (in perfect tune) may repre¬ 
sent Reality or that which IS. The violinist 

accepts this as perfection. He wishes to have 

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harmony and so tunes his instrument to it. 
Both are perfectly adjusted. When this is 
accomplished the tones of the piano seem to 
meet and melt into the tones of the violin. 
They are ONE. As we become conscious that 
we are One with all that IS, we are in tune 
with the Infinite. 

I live in God’s perfect world where all is har¬ 
mony, and I am now conscious of the ISNESS 
of things. 

Since God is all—All is well. 

MEDITATION 

Perfect life IS. 

Perfect health IS. 

Perfect love IS. 

Perfect peace IS. 

Perfect success IS. 

Perfect joy IS. 

Perfect mind IS. 

Perfect substance IS. 

Perfect Self IS. 

GOD IS. 


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THE VALUE OF PLAY 

The law of rhythm is as old as creation. 
Work and play go hand in hand. The mighty 
force of Omnipresence expresses its ebb and 
flow in the transit of night and day. Our beau¬ 
tiful symphonies are colored with rests, fol¬ 
lowed by outbursts of intense feeling. With 
mathematical precision, scientists have noted 
that plants grow and rest. 

One of the greatest cures for mental fatigue, 
especially (and all cause is mental), is to for¬ 
get false pride and get into some good game. 
This does not necessarily mean some sport 
with definite rules, but any form of recreation 
which will force us to forget our bodies, our 
work and petty cares. 

Do you realize that one of the best forms of 
discipline is to become a perfect master in di¬ 
verting your thoughts from those of self, out 
into the harmony of Nature’s vibrations? One 
who has not, as yet, accomplished this, can not 
realize the transformation resulting therefrom. 

What is play? An entire change of thought 

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from the usual. For the person who is en¬ 
gaged in work of a manual nature, a game of 
chess or checkers, the theatre, a lecture or a 
musical concert would afford a stimulating di¬ 
version. For the individual whose work con¬ 
fines him within doors, violent exercise is con¬ 
ducive to the release of tension. 

The following forms of play are suggested 
for most of the latter class: swimming, hiking, 
rowing, golf, horseback riding, basket-ball, 
base-ball, foot-ball, tennis, medicine-ball, volley 
ball and bicycle riding. 

Play is worship to the God of Nature. One 
of the greatest secrets of happiness is to real¬ 
ize that a due proportion of our time must be 
accorded play as well as work. 

s & J* 

THE MAN WHO LIKES A TREE 

I like a man who likes a tree, 

And want no better company, 

For such a man I always find 
Is just the very sort and kind 


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Who’s not content unless it be 
He, too, can grow much like a tree. 

I like a man who likes a tree ; 

No further introduction he 
Will ever need to win my heart; 

To me he is the counterpart 
Of usefulness and comfort, too. 

And does the good few others do. 

I like a man who likes a tree, 

He’s so much of a man to me; 

For when he sees its blessings there, 

In some way, too, he wants to share 
Whatever gifts his own may be 
In helping others like a tree. 

For trees, you know, are friends indeed. 

They satisfy such human need; 

In summer shade, in winter fire. 

With flower and fruit meet all desire. 
And if a friend to man you’d be, 

You must befriend him like a tree. 

—Charles A. Heath. 


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IT ISN’T THE WORLD—IT’S YOU! 

You say the world looks gloomy, 

The skies are grim and grey, 

The night has lost its quiet— 

You fear the coming day. 

The world is what you make it, 

The sky is grey or blue, 

Just as your soul may paint it— 

It isn’t the world, it’s you! 

Clear the clouded vision, 

Clean out the foggy mind; 

The clouds are always passing, 

And each is silver-lined. 

The world is what you make it— 

Then make it bright and true, 

And when you say it’s gloomy, 

It isn’t the world, it’s you! 

—Anonymous. 

& j* .jt 

“YOU” 

Within our individual memory there have 

been many remarkable discoveries. Man has 

heard of the discovery of the North Pole, new 

planets, radio activity and radium. 

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Each one may make a discovery infinitely 
greater and far sweeping—as grat as these 
have been in their service to man. The great 
discovery each one must make is Self discovery 
or realizing the hidden power within. This 
hidden Self I will call “YOU.” It is not the 
personal self of which I speak but the imper¬ 
sonal. We have been mistaken in believing 
that the so-called personal self is “YOU.” 

The belief in the personal is but a shadow 
on the wall. It never resembles Reality but is 
always distorted. Plato wrote that men never 
see the light, but seem content with the shad¬ 
ows that are cast upon the wall. We are told 
that the man God made is Godlike; made in 
His own image and likeness. If the man with 
whom you are acquainted is not like Truth, 
you had better not condemn but seek for the 
Reality in back of the shadow. God looks into 
the mirror of the universe and sees Himself as 
Man. 

Possibly you have watched, as I have, a 

crowd of people enjoying themselves before 

the mirrors in an amusement park. Here is 

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a man standing in front of one that makes him 
appear tall and very thin. He seems to treat 
it as a joke, for he immediately affirms that 
while he sees the reflection it is false. Not con¬ 
tent, he goes before another mirror and this 
proves equally as deceiving. He now appears 
short and very broad. Not for a moment does 
he think that he has changed. He knows that 
the baffling reflections cast by the mirrors are 
not true and so he says—“It is not I.” This, 
however, is true—it is not the Self. 

There is another false appearance of the 
Self—called mortal man bv the world. It is 

j 

the “public opinion" man or self. It is what 
people believe you to be and it is just as false 
as the man described previously, if not more 
so. 

Robert Burns wanted to see himself as oth¬ 
ers saw him and this seemed to be a prayer 
from his heart. But you see this is not Truth 
—for seeing yourself as others see you would 
only give one more reflection of human mind. 

I do not wish to see myself as others see me 
but as “I AM.” 


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In the race for glory, fame, riches and suc¬ 
cess, too many people are endeavoring to “get 
ahead” of other people instead of getting ahead 
of themselves. It is not the human, mortal, 
shadow reflection of human concepts and opin¬ 
ions that you want, but knowledge of the real 
“YOU.” 

A beautiful story, entitled “The Man No¬ 
body Knew,” is told. It relates the life of a 
young man who went to war and returned to 
his home town unknown. He had been a youth 
full of fiery energy. This energy had been con¬ 
demned by his friends and therefore it was not 
under control. 

He went to France and, raising that force 
which had almost destroyed him, made it serve 
the cause. He went into battle and was horri¬ 
bly wounded. He was carried to the rear and 
after waiting for months in a hospital, under¬ 
went an operation in which his face was re¬ 
modeled. 

The day before the operation, a mission 
worker passed through the ward and handed 

him a card on which was printed a picture of 

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the Christ. The young man flung it to the 
floor, but a nurse picked it up and placed it be¬ 
neath his pillow. On the day following, the 
surgeon stood at his bedside and asked him for 
a picture of himself, that they might be guided 
in their delicate work, so that he could face 
the world once more and appear like himself. 
The youth thought for a moment of the home¬ 
town folks and how they had seen the mortal, 
shadow self and how without helping him once, 
they had condemned him often. 

He hesitated—then pulling out the picture 
card from under his pillow, handed it to the 
doctor and said, “Take this and use it.” His 
request was granted and after months of pa¬ 
tient waiting, when Nature in all her kindness 
nursed him back to health, he was ready to 
begin his journey home. When he arrived in 
the small town he was received with open arms. 
Nobody knew him. He no longer bore the 
image of the mortal but of the Divine. In his 
selection of a visible image he had found Him¬ 
self—he had realized the u YOU.” It is in all, 
buried deep—perhaps beneath much negative 
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I was passing through the held of a Califor¬ 
nia ranch one day and on the hill I saw a pool 
of water. The surface was covered with a 
green slime and the water seemed motionless. 
I stood for a moment and turning to a friend, 
who was with me, asked why the pool was al¬ 
lowed to remain in that condition. He said, 
“It is useful." I replied, ‘‘Certainly that can 
not be true." He also made reply and said, “Ah ! 
you are looking at the surface. About twelve 
inches beneath the surface there is a pipe and 
the water is clear and sweet down there. From 
that place it is piped to the cattle and the water¬ 
ing troughs." 

Just beneath the apparent self, which we 
have called the person, is the real, eternal, 
immutable “YOU." It is always the same 
clear, clean, Divine, impersonal SELF. 

One night a man walked down the street in 

a large city. He had seen better days, but on 

this particular night was homeless, without 

money and without food. He was discouraged 

and about to give up. Coming toward him he 

saw a man well dressed and with an “air" of 

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prosperity. He thought, “I am hungry and 
cold. I must ask him for help.” 

When the man reached him, he spoke and 
said—“Will you give me money for something 
to eat and a place to sleep on this cold night?” 
The man whom he addressed was a business 
man, returning home late from his office, but 
more than that—he, like so many successful 
men today, knew the TRUTH. Looking into 
the man’s eyes, he said with honest convic¬ 
tion, “You don’t want money; you want 'that 
something.’ ” Then taking a card from his 
pocket he handed it to the man, saying— 
"When you find 'that something,’ call upon 
me at my office.” 

The man went to a corner saloon and sitting 
at a table, looked at the card and said over 
to himself—"That something—that some¬ 
thing. Where is it? What is it?” Then out 
of the depths, he heard the voice say, "It is 
YOU.” 

Two years after that night he walked into 

his friend’s office and thanked him for the gift 

he had given him—the gift of knowledge that 

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led to Self Discovery. He had prospered and 
he, himself, was a successful business man of 
power. 

The secret of all is “YOU.” It is not out¬ 
side that you will find it, but within. All 
things begin within; when we cease looking 
to circumstances, conditions, appearances and 
personalities, we will make that contact with 
SELF. Many people call it personality. They 
say that one succeeds because he or she has a 
good personality. Personality is but the outer; 
remember, “that something” is within. It is 
called “Individuality” and it is that unchang¬ 
ing “YOU” that is always success. 

I have never seen “YOU.” I have seen 
your personality; your manner; your form; 
but YOU are the invisible Reality. Person¬ 
ality is the globe, but “Individuality” is the 
electricity which shines through. It is not the 
globe, but the energy that counts for most. 
Personality is the frame; “Individuality,” the 
picture. It is the picture that is important. 
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the thought in the book. Let us find the im¬ 
portant thing—“that something”—“YOU.” 

“YOU” bear no mortal name such as John 
Smith or Mary Jones. These are only names 
given to people so that they can receive their 
mail—the name of the great Self is “I AM.” 
When man realizes Himself, he also realizes 
that he is A PART OF God and not APART 
FROM God. It was Moses who made this 
discovery for the children of Israel. After 
saying that he could not speak fluently and 
that he had no power, he looked within and 
found that Moses was only a name; the name 
of an outer shadow (reflection), reflecting an 
appearance which he had always thought to 
be the real Man. When he heard the voice 
say, “ T AM’ that ‘I AM,’ ” he found himself; 
he discovered “YOU.” 

People have been self-hypnotized, thinking 
that the shadow was the real and eternal. In 
the old Greek days, actors came upon the 
stage, wearing great masks which made even 
the most courageous tremble with fear. They 

made the man look like some beast or fiend. 

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Of course the actor was a very different sort 
of man, but he was acting and so had to play 
the role assigned him. Here was a very good 
man playing the part of a villain. In reality 
he was not what he seemed to be. The people 
knew this to be the case and still they were 
so absorbed with the shadow or appearance 
that they were deceived. 

A hypocrite, according to the understanding 
of the past, was a man who was trying to ap¬ 
pear better than he IS. No one could appear 
to be better than he IS. He IS and that ends 
it. My definition of a hypocrite is a man who 
is endeavoring to be worse than he IS. In 
order to do this (for men are actors who walk 
across the stage of life), he wears a mask. Us¬ 
ing modern words, or expressing it in the lan¬ 
guage of our day, he has a good '‘make up.” 
In fact the "make up” seems so perfect that 
many are beguiled into the false belief. 

One day I sat in a store and watched the 
people pass before the window. There was an 
endless stream of human forms—all different, 

many of whom were disguised by a clever and 

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deceiving ‘‘make up.” They had hypnotized 
themselves and others into the same belief. 
Here was one who THOUGHT he was sick. 
He looked sick (so well did he wear the mask) 
and acted perfectly. Here was a woman who 
THOUGHT she was mean and critical. She 
was a wonderful actress. Here was an in¬ 
dividual who THOUGHT he was poor—and 
more wonderful acting I have never seen. 

As I looked at the “passing show,” it re¬ 
quired all the will power I possessed to refrain 
from rushing to the street and shouting, “Take 
off those masks. I know who you are. YOU 
are Health, Goodness and Wealth.” 

That something is within. Always from 
within conies the urge—the desire to EX¬ 
PRESS. Repression is the law of death; ex¬ 
pression is the law of life. 

Here is an acorn, and as I look at it and 

judge by appearance (shadow) I say, “You 

are just a little acorn.” But something within 

stirs and replies, “Not so. I am an oak.” I 

laugh for a moment at such an idea and reply 

—“You do not look like it,” and the acorn also 

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replies—“But I AM. Believe in me; give me 
an opportunity; see beneath the surface.” 

I do believe in the little acorn and time is 
an ally. A giant oak now stands where once 
I buried the acorn (covered the personal) in 
the field. Birds build their nests in its branch¬ 
es; little children play beneath its sheltering 
limbs and the weary traveler finds comfort in 
its shade. It WAS an oak; it IS an oak; it 
always WILL BE an oak, because it has with¬ 
in itself an unchanging principle. 

I picked up a lily bulb and cast it aside. It 
seemed to smile through its hard brown shell 
at my ignorance and it said, ‘ k I am an Easter 
lily.” Then I asked it if it, too, had “that 
something” within and it gave me the answer 
I expected—“Yes, I have, but I must forget 
the personal, and if you will cover me I shall 
find myself.” Gladly did I do it, for I thought 
if the oak could come from the acorn, perhaps 
the lily would come from the bulb—and the 
miracle came on Easter, for it was true—it was 
not a bulb, but a flower of purity and beauty. 

One day I saw a worm crawling into a dark 

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corner. It seemed to speak (“Look to the 
earth and it shall teach thee”—Job) and say, 
“I am tired of my worm consciousness. 
Something in me wants to fly. If you will let 

me spin this cocoon of Silence and if you will 
wait, you will see that the urge is Divine.” 

It was true. One morning, only the shell 
of the worm consciousness remained. The but¬ 
terfly was darting here and there over the sun¬ 
lit road, flying up—up—up, until it disappeared 
in the distant blue. 

It is the story of Nature and of Man—of that 
urge within, seeking expression; “that some¬ 
thing” that is knocking at the door of Man's 
mind, crying, 

“Let me out, 
for 

I AM 

YOU.” 

& s & 

“I AM” 

“I AM” is that unchanging Creator and 

Creation ; One in All—All in One. I AM 

is Omnipresent Life—unchanging Wisdom 

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which you and I express; which expresses you 
and me. 

When Moses asked the Invisible Source of 
all knowledge whom he should say had sent 
him (knowing that the children of Israel 
would ask him that question)—God, the In¬ 
visible Reality, replied, “I Am that I Am.” 

“In the beginning—God/’ What a vast eter¬ 
nity of time that covers! What a wonderful 
heredity we must acknowledge ! 

“In the beginning—God;” “I Am.” 

Before North America appeared—“I Am.” 

Before Europe was inhabited—“I Am.” 

Before South America awakened to civiliza¬ 
tion—“I Am.” 

Before Australia had its beginning—“I 
Am.” 

Before Africa was known as a continent— 
“I Am.” 

Before Asia was—“I Am.” 

Before man had dominion—“I Am.” 

Before animals were—“I Am.” 

Before plant life began—“I Am.” 

Before terra firma—“I Am.” 

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Before the first gases—“I Am.” 

Before Light was—“I Am.” 

In the eternal beginning—God, the Word 
—“I Am.” 

What relation does this bear to the Silence? 
What is the Silence? 

A stillness unto God, the Invisible Source of 
All—All Life; All Good; All Love; All Power; 
All Health; All Strength; All Success; All in 
All. 

ALL . 

“Silence is as deep as eternity.” 

It touches the unknown Knower. 

It touches the unseen Seer. 

It touches the unheard Hearer. 

Who is this unknown Knower? 

Who is this unseen Seer? 

Who is this unheard Hearer? 

“I Am” 

“I Am”—the sum total of the whole uni¬ 
verse, including all activity (conscious and un¬ 
conscious). There are not two lives — your 

life and the Perfect Life; not tzvo minds — your 

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mind and Infinite Mind. There is only the 
One; “I Am”—seen and unseen. 

In all climes; 

At all times; 

Everywhere—eternal. 

“I Am”—the power of peace. 

“I Am”—the power of poise. 

“I Am”—the power of good judgment. 

“I Am”—the power of understanding. 

“I Am”—the power that thinks. 

“I Am”—the power that sees. 

“I Am”—the power that hears. 

“I Am”—the power that knows. 

‘T Am”’—eternity. 

If I go to the New England States—there 
“I Am.” 

If I go to the Middle Atlantic States—there 
“I Am.” 

If I go to the Southern States—there “I 
Am.” 

If I go to the Central States—there “I Am.” 

If I go to the Western States—there “I Am.” 

If I go to Alaska—there “I Am.” 

If I go to Canada—there “I Am.” 

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If I go to Mexico—there “I Am.” 

If I go to Europe—there “I Am.” 

If I go to South America—there “I Am.” 

If I go to Asia—there “I Am.” 

If I go to Africa—there “I Am.” 

If I go to Australia—there “I Am.’' 

In the North—“I Am.” 

In the South—“I Am.” 

In the East—'“I Am.” 

In the West—“I Am.” 

“In God (“I AM”) we live and move and 
have our Being.” 

The following poem clearly illustrates my 
point concerning this imperceptible blending 
of God and Man. In this consciousness we 
touch the “I Am”—the very center of Being— 
that “I” which was “in the beginning, always 
has been and always shall be”— 

TIDES 

Jeanne Stanley Gary 

Adown the misty caverns of the past I 
come 

As some bright angel speeding on its way to 
paths unknown, 


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So shall I ever go, nor wait, nor stay; 

I have been here before and many moons ago, 
By Hellen’s shore I stood and watched 
The swelling tide of empire rise and fall, 

To rise again. Before Atlantis was, I AM, 
Breath of the Father's breath, the Eternal One, 

An all converging ray sent from the central 
Sun and sent again, aeons and aeons o’er. 

By Nile waves I stand and hear great Mem- 
mon’s song, 

And soar again. The sacred fire I tend in Gre¬ 
cian groves, 

All, all, through many lives part and essence 
of the Eternal Whole. 

Olympus, Rome, the isles beyond the seas have 
known me, 

Many times I come nor falter on my road, 
Straight from the heart of God, His messenger 
Forever on the way to some fair country. 

Born before time was amid the stars. 

Circles of light and everlasting glory are His 
crown. 

And earth’s roses are the sunshine of His smile. 
I come—I go. And ever on the cinemas of 
time 


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I film my story of distant lives 
And all the path of glory which I have 
Travelled, borne by the caravans of time. 
Poet and peasant, prophet, priest and king I 
come; 

Nor can I read the way ’til all is done. 

Merged toga—sackcloth—ermine, all are one. 
Yet, scions of kings, I go, I come. 

& 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 

I think I could turn and live with animals, 
they are so placid and self contained. 

I stand and look at them long and long. 

They do not sweat and whine about their 
condition. 

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep 
for their sins. 

They do not make me sick, discussing their 
duty to God. 

Not one is dissatisfied ; not one is demented 

with the mania of owning things. 

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind 

that lived thousands of years ago. 

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Not one is respectable, or unhappy over the 
whole earth. 

So they show their relations to me, and I 
accept them. 

They bring me tokens of myself; they evince 
them plainly in their possession. 

I wonder where they get those tokens. 

Did I pass that way huge times ago and 
negligently drop them?—Walt Whitman. 

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TRUTHS 

That which I think I bring forth. 

Life and death are in the power of the 
tongue.—Prov. 18:21. 

By nature, I am strong, happy and prosper¬ 
ous. I will, therefore, be natural. 

My mind is pure; my thought is pure; my 
body is pure. 

I am—changeless Being. 

There is but one Cause—that Cause is per¬ 
fect. 

I seem to lack only what I fail to realize. 

I practice thinking Life, Health and Success. 

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I accept rest for it is my true nature. 

I am—established in Truth and Love. 

God is all; then all is well. 

I am thankful that God IS and that I Am 
God’s consciousness. 

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FATAL TO ACHIEVEMENT 

An old-time philosopher said that he never 
knew anyone to achieve success who lay in bed 
in the morning, and that observation can be 
confirmed by the majority of people who keep 
their eyes open. A full allowance of sleep is 
essential. To save time by cutting off one’s 
hours of sleep is to squander health and life 
itself. But the self-indulgent spirit which we 
associate with lying in bed in the morning, the 
spirit which leads one to turn on his pillow 
when the rising hour arrives, and settle himself 
for an extra nap, is fatal to success. Whatever 
you are aiming for, you gain it by discipline. 
The late riser shows, by that single indulgence, 
the weakness which accounts for failure. 

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Thousands of years ago a leaf fell on the soft 
clay, and seemed to be lost. But last summer 
a geologist in his ramblings broke off a piece 
of rock with his hammer and there lay the 
image of the leaf, with every line and every 
vein and all the delicate tracery preserved in 
the stone through these centuries. So the 
words we speak and the things we do today 
may seem to be lost, but in the great final re¬ 
vealing, the smallest of them will appear. 

—James Russell Lowell. 

■J* .J« & 

SUCCESS THOUGHTS 

The only difference between genius and me¬ 
diocrity is that genius looks through a tele¬ 
scope while mediocrity looks through a micro¬ 
scope. 

Your body is crystallized thought; how 
clear are the crystals? 

Our greatest happiness consists not in never 
falling, but in rising every time we fall—Oliver 
Goldsmith. 

The baby chick never goes back into his 

shell; neither will you. 

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IN THE GAME OF LIFE TO WIN 

Some have called life a voyage where one 
steers for a certain port. Others have said it 
is a climb from the valleys of labor to some 
great mountain peak of rest. One calls it a 
journey down a sunlit road that now and then 
has a shadow. 

I do not disagree with my friends, but I call 
life a game. It is a wonderful game and we 
all want to win—and we all may win. Like, 
every other game there are rules to observe in 
order to play it correctly. We are all playing 
—it would seem individually and yet we are 
playing on the team. All other men and 
women are also playing. 

Just as a chain is no stronger than its weak¬ 
est link, so the team is strong only as each 
player co-operates with his fellow-man. We are 
like spokes in a wheel and we each have a share 
of the load to bear. “Co-operation/’ then is the 
keyword and not “Competition.” We want 
to win for the honor of the team and as we 
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One can readily see that human brotherhood 
needs to be emphasized now and then. If each 
spoke will do its bit, the wagon will pass over 
the roughest road; if each player will do his 
best, the game may be won. 

I shall mention a few of the outstanding 
things which one should remember if he hopes 
to win: Make the best use of your time and 
opportunities. Time and opportunities are 
your material. We are told that $10.00 worth 
of iron will make $100.00 worth of horseshoes 
or $1,000.00 worth of watch springs. We all 
have the same raw material. What we do with 
it is what counts. Many great men—in fact, 
most of them—had to fight against great odds 
to win. 

Lincoln and Edison are two notable ex¬ 
amples of men who decided to win at any cost. 
We know that Lincoln and Edison made use of 
their time and grasping opportunity by the 
forelock, won. Edison is a wonderful example 
of how the activity of the mind will keep one 
fit. We do not wear out; we rust out. Hard 
things to face and great problems to solve do 

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not mean defeat and disaster. These things 
call out the best that is in us. 

It was the apparent failure of Cyrus Field 
to succeed that forced him to lay the Atlantic 
Cable; it was apparent failure that brought 
“The Scarlet Letter” from the brain of Haw¬ 
thorne—that made Columbus say again to 
those who threatened to destroy him, “Sail on! 
Sail on!” A dead fish can float with the cur¬ 
rent, but it takes a live one to swim against it. 

I lived in a city in California a few years ago. 
There were not many trees in that city. A 
man of wealth, who had local pride, offered 
any one trees free of charge who would plant 
them. I applied for five and set them out. 
They had been out a month when one day a 
man said to me, “You should stake those young 
trees or the wind will break them.” I had five 
large stakes placed near the trees. After an¬ 
other month, another man said—“You ought 
not to stake those small trees.” When I told 
him why I had done so, he said, “Not so at 
all. They need the wind. As the wind bends 

them, it will compel them to send their roots 

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down into the soil and make anchorage.” This 
seemed like the better advice—so I pulled up 
the stakes. 

Life is full of opportunities to bring out the 
best in us, if we look upon it as a friendly game 
in which we have been invited to play. We 
need persistency. Always remember that per¬ 
sistency comes from desire. Desire is hunger 
—in fact, desire or hunger for success will make 
one concentrate, persevere and exert his utmost 
will. 

I once knew a man who had been lost in 
the Canadian forests for seven days. He was 
so hungry when he did find camp again, that 
it took five strong men to pull him away from 
the table, after they thought that he had eaten 
enough. Hunger—Hunger—Hunger. You 
can do anything if you are hungry to do it. 
Just think of the concentration, persistency and 
will of a hungry mosquito. When you have to 
do a thing, you can do it. 

Many a fielder has been dreaming when the 

ball came his way. What we all need to do is 

to keep awake. Someone has said, “If you 

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keep awake in the daytime, you will sleep al¬ 
right at night.” 

Let us have more will power. Will to win 
and you will. A darky out in Arkansas was 
trying for a half hour to get his mule to move. 
A white man who had been watching the per¬ 
formance, suggested this, “Mose, why don’t 
you use your will power?” Mose wiped his 
brow, looked first at the mule—then at the 
man and replied—“Will power? Yas sir, I 
have used will power, but yo’ oughta see that 
mule’s won’t power.” Less zvon’t power and 
more will power will turn the tide and help you 
to score in the game of life. 

Will power is practically the same as what 
the little boy said was his motto. This small 
boy applied to a business man for the position 
of office boy. The man looked at the small 
applicant and said, “Well, my boy, when I 
started out in life I had a motto. What is 
yours?” “Same as yours,” said the boy, as 
he pointed to a sign on the man’s door— 
“PUSH.” 

Now and then I meet people who have fal- 

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3en into the idea that success is not for them. 
They believe that it is for some people, but not 
for every one. If they would consider Nature, 
they would see that we are all governed by 
Universal Law. The sunshine is for all who 
will come out of the shadows and receive it. So 
is it with life—there are a thousand friendly 
laws serving man every moment, if he will but 
allow them to, and if he will place himself in 
the current. The wind is for every windmill 
and yet it will only turn the windmill that is 
unlocked and is therefore ready to receive 
its power. The electricity is along the electric 
wires in our homes, and still it can only serve 
us as the switch is turned and the current is 
allowed to flow through. These wireless 
waves are filling all so-called space and yet, 
these waves of intelligence will only register 
in the brain of the person who has on the re¬ 
ceivers. Remember, in life, to keep on the re¬ 
ceivers. 

Someone has said, “Silence is golden.” It is 
true—we talk too much. “Silence is as deep 

as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.” The 

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empty wagon makes the most noise. The si¬ 
lent river is DEEP and powerful. In this 
noisy, rushing, American life, we need to re¬ 
member now and then to be still and instead 
of continually “speaking out,” we need to 
“LISTEN IN” and catch the great wave 
length of SUCCESS and POWER. 

An old time philosopher, after giving a stu¬ 
dent a lesson, charged him a double fee. When 
the student asked why he had charged him so 
much, he replied—“I must teach you TWO 
lessons—one, how to SPEAK and one, how to 
KEEP STILL.” 

Let us learn a lesson from the wise old owl— 
“A wise old owl lived in an oak, 

The more he heard, the less he spoke; 

The less he spoke, the more he heard, 

Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?” 

I am often asked what book has taught me 
the most and I have replied, “ 'The Essay on 
Silence,’ by Elbert Hubbard.” It is a small 
volume of blank pages. 

In life, never believe that anything is too 

good for you. People often do not succeed 

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and win in life, because they think that pros¬ 
perity, health and happiness are really too good 
to be true. Only the good is true. People 
often say when something is given them— 
“That is too good for me.” 

Once a trooper in one of the Napoleonic 
wars rushed into the Emperor's camp and 
handed him a message. Napoleon wrote an 
answer and handed it back to the soldier. The 
man turned to his horse, only to find that it had 
died of exhaustion. Napoleon, seeing the man 
looking upon his horse, said, “Take mine.” 
The trooper looked at the wonderful steed, 

i 

with its gold and silver mountings, and said 
—“That is too good for me." Napoleon re¬ 
plied, “What? Too good? Nothing is too 
good for a soldier of France. Take it.” As the 
soldier rode off into the retreating columns, he 
cried—“Nothing is too good for a soldier of 
France." These words from the Emperor put 
courage and hope into the faint hearts of the 
retreating men. They caught a new meaning 
of human dignity and accepted the best as their 


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birthright. "Too good for me'" means that one 

has lost his honor—a sense of his real worth. 

Regardless as to who you are, where you 

are. where you came from or what vou have 
-> * 

been—you may be what you want to be. The 
very desire in the lungs for air is evidence that 
there is air; the very desire for success and 
the ability to win is proof that it exists and 
that it is for you. Fan the spark of desire 
until it is a flame—then from that flame draw 
energy with which to work as well as play. 

We are clay, we have been told. Let us not 
complain, but accept. If clay, then it can be 
shaped: if we are not satisfied with our char¬ 
acters. our dispositions and our results, we 

know that the clav mav be molded bv the 

* * 

mind—we know that by true thought, high 
ideals and faithful endeavor, we may be ‘’made 
over.*’ 

From the beginning of time, there has been 
in the heart of man a desire to rise: to succeed; 
to accomplish: to face the storm; to scale the 
heights: to conquer: to \\ IX! The desire is 
evidence that he may and *’CAX.” 

’’SUCCESS COMES IX CAXS.” 

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Something within the worm stirs and it is 
changed into a butterfly. Something stirs in 
the acorn and it becomes an oak. Something 
stirs in the bulb and it becomes a beautiful lily. 
Something stirs within man, and toiling 
through true thought and patient effort, with 
his face toward the heights, he gains at last the 
sunlit summit of his dreams. 


THE CALF PATH 

One day through the primeval wood 
A calf walked home, as good calves should; 
But left a trail all bent askew, 

A crooked trail, as all calves do. 

The trail was taken up next day 
By a lone dog that passed that way,— 

And then a wise bell-wether sheep 
Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep. 

So from that day, o’er hill and glade, 
Through those old woods a path was made, 
And many men wound in and out, 

And bent and turned and dodged about, 

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But still they followed—do not laugh— 

The first migrations of that calf. 

This forest path became a lane, 

That bent and turned and turned again; 

This crooked lane became a road, 

Where many a poor horse, with his load 
Toiled on beneath the burning sun, 

And traveled some three miles in one. 

And thus a century and a half 
They trod the footsteps of that calf. 

A moral lesson this might teach, 

Were I ordained and called to preach, 

For men are prone to go it blind 
Along the calf-paths of the mind 
And toil away from sun to sun 
To do what other men have done. 

They follow in the beaten track, 

And out and in, and forth and back, 

And still their devious course pursue 
To keep the path that others do. 

But how the wise old wood-gods laugh 
Who saw the first primeval calf! 

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THOUGHTS THAT INSPIRE 

It has been said, “It is a good thing to know 
your weakness,” but I say, “It is a good thing 
to know your strength.’’ 

Everyone who achieves, has a purpose. A 
purposeless life is a ship without a rudder. 
Thousands are moving automatically in a nar¬ 
row circle, like the horses in a merry-go-round, 
because they lack the purpose which will en¬ 
able them to get out of a groove and go some¬ 
where. 

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Someone has said that the Spartans did not 
inquire how many the enemy were, but where 
they were. 

Poor methods, with first class men employ¬ 
ing them, are often more successful than the 
best methods in combination with mediocre 
workers. A good workman can do creditable 
work even with poor tools, but a poor workman 
gets unsatisfactory results no matter how per¬ 
fect the tools he uses. Don't assume that be¬ 
cause you have a good system, it is going to 
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lt is said that the sweetest side of any fruit 
or vegetable is the side which grows toward the 
sun. There is no doubt that the sun has a 
great deal to do with the beauty and flavor of 
the fruits which are the delight of man. Moral 
—Keep your face toward Light—TRUTH. 

Few of the best things in life are carried 
by storm. The citadels worth taking must be 
besieged. The richest friendships take time to 
grow. Real success does not come in a minute. 
Don't risk everything in one desperate 
charge. Be prepared to give siege when neces¬ 
sary. 

Life’s best things are never on the bargain 
counter. You will never find a remnant of suc¬ 
cess for sale cheap, and a damaged friendship 
at half price would be the costliest thing you 

could buy. Don’t look for bargains. Demand 
of life the best things, and pay the full price. 

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose 
the good we oft might win, by fearing to at¬ 
tempt.” 

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OUR CREED 

I have chosen the way of TRUTH. I allow 
nothing to discourage me. I attract prosperity. 
I radiate abundance. Harmony reigns in my 
affairs. I hereby concentrate my life to the 
perfect law of harmony. No maftter how often 
I may become inharmonious in the future as a 
result of my old habits of destructive thinking, 
I will renew this vow each time I break it. The 
universal God energy is manifesting perfect 
health in me now. It is causing each organ 
to perform its functions in a perfectly natural 
and harmonious manner now. I will banish 
from my thought world now all anger, hate, 
worry, fear, anxiety, impatience, intolerance, 
condemnation, criticism, resentment, resist¬ 
ance, envy, jealousy, strain, effort and all simi¬ 
lar negative, destructive thought emotions. I 
will renew this vow every time I break it until 
this new habit of constructive thinking is so 
firmly fixed in my life that it is natural and a 
part of me. 

God’s essence is and must be the absolute 

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good, and since God is the first cause, creating 
by the imparting of His own essence, shaped 
according to His own perfect ideas, everything 
real is and must be good. 

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PERSONALITY THAT ENDURES 

“Personality” is a great word and still 
greater when rightly understood. It should 
be the ambition of every progressive person to 
have a winning personality. Often we hear 
these remarks—“It is her personality that wins 
you to her side,” and “Well! after all it is his 
personality that aids so much in selling his 
article.” Instead of raising an argument as to 
the difference between “Individuality” and 
“Personality” suppose we call it all Person¬ 
ality. 

To attain the realization and demonstration 
of the great Personality ought to be the aim of 
all. Each expression of life should seek to im¬ 
prove its manifestation. The person who says, 

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tliat “ Good enough is bad enough until it is the 
best.” 

There is only One Personality in the whole 
universe and man is a part of it instead of be¬ 
ing apart from it. This great Personality is 
within and there are two great mistakes made 
by people of opposite extremes. One class 
gives heed only to the without, neglecting the 
within—this class of people is represented in 
the materialist. There is also the opposite ex¬ 
treme represented by the ascetic, whose atten¬ 
tion is so given over to the Spirit that he for¬ 
gets to care for the temple that Spirit inhabits. 
In the Orient and often in the Occident these 
people are found with long matted hair, shab¬ 
by clothes and bare dirty feet. 

Somewhere there is a golden mean and Paul 
taught that the body is the temple of God. As 
a temple it should be kept beautiful and its 
windows, through which the great light shines, 
should be clean. As one realizes the great Per¬ 
sonality within he is more careful of the great 
without. A mother once said to her son whom 

she thought too extravagant in clothes, <k Son, 

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remember man looketh on the appearance, but 
God looketh on the heart.” The son replied 
and rightly so, “Because man looks on the ap¬ 
pearance, I must appear well.” 

The best way to lift a man to a higher level 
is to lift his opinion of himself. It is true that 
the great Personality can make shabby clothes 
look attractive, but it is truer that when once 
your mind is stayed on the Source, you will not 
have to wear old clothes. God gives the trees 
and flowers new garments in the spring be¬ 
cause He wishes even the appearance to be at¬ 
tractive. 

I once visited each farm house in an entire 
township during a campaign and the condition 
of the farm yard always told me the mental 
condition of the people who lived there. When 
I found the gate off, farm machinery rusting 

V 

in the yard, chickens on the front porch and a 

broken fence I found poverty, ignorance and no 

consciousness of the great Personality. The 

great change in a person takes place when he 

has a change of thinking, and especially when 

he gets a “better opinion of himself.” Neglect 

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neither the outside nor the inside for they are 
One. 

I have no sympathy and very little patience 
with the person who wants to be a poor mortal 
or “worm of the dust.” He slanders God and 
degrades man. Just now in the springtime all 
nature seems to be coming into the conscious¬ 
ness of life, and it should be the time when man 
awakens to the meaning of Easter—namely, 
that he can manifest life instead of death; suc¬ 
cess instead of poverty; health instead of dis¬ 
ease. 

It does not require very much to awaken 
the sleeping power within. Possibly the great¬ 
est aid in bringing it to the surface is kind¬ 
ness. 

“So many Gods, so many creeds, 

So many paths that wind and wind, 

When all this sad world needs, 

Is just the art of being kind 

A beggar once asked alms of Tolstoy and 
Tolstoy, who had given his wealth away, said: 

“Brother, I am sorry but I have no money.” 

He then passed on down the street. That 

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afternoon he passed the beggar again and no¬ 
ticed that his face was wreathed in smiles. 
Tolstoy stopped and said: 

“You must have received much money since 
I saw you this morning.” 

The beggar replied: 

“No, nothing.” 

“Then how is it that you smile?” 

“Ah!” said the beggar, “you called me 
brother.” 

When we realize that after all there is only 
One Personality, we can know the real kinship 
that exists not only between people but all liv¬ 
ing things. Jesus so perfectly KNEW this 
ONENESS that he openly said, “He that hath 
seen me hath seen the Father.” 

Man is God or nothing. God is all or noth¬ 
ing. God is everywhere or nowhere. Two lit¬ 
tle newsboys were talking together one day on 
a street in Boston, when Phillips Brooks 
passed. One boy said, “Sh ! There goes God.” 
Phillips Brooks was called the best loved man 
in New England—then the newsboy was right. 

So many people strive for human personality 

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(mask) when in reality there is only the DI¬ 
VINE WITHIN US. The story of this Eas¬ 
ter season with its crucifixion and resurrection 
is the story of One who died (to self) that he 
(“I AM”) might live. He merged the human 
with the Divine until they were one—God was 
man and man was God. This does not make 
God manlike but it does make man Godlike. 
Jesus himself said, “Does it not say, 'Ye are 
Gods?’ ” 

Just now the lily bulbs are saying, “Come 
forth;” the seeds hidden in the dark earth are 
saying, “Unfold;” the mother hen brooding 
over her nest—all nature is setting up the Di¬ 
vine urge—“Come forth.” Let “I AM” within 
you come forth as Success—Health—Plenty— 
Happiness—Now— 

RE-SURRECTION. 

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A NEW REASON FOR KEEPING STILL 

There are many reasons for being silent 
There is not one for not doing so. This rea¬ 
son, however, came to the writer and it is here 
offered. 


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bong ago when your ancestors were pursued 
by wild beasts, they lived in almost constant 
fear. They had no way of knowing when the 
beast was approaching. Their eyes were 
keener than ours, it is true, but there were more 
obstructions such as the undergrowth of the 
jungle forest. Your ancestor had to rely upon 
some power by which he could “KNOW.” 

At last, after searching outside of himself 
without results, he went within and there, 
probably for the first time, made his contact 
with Mind. After this he “KNEW” by instinct 
or sub-conscious perception. Man does not 
know today, either, except as he goes wthin. 

There was another reason why your ances¬ 
tor kept the “Silence.” After great fear, 
probably having been pursued by a great beast, 
he found refuge in a cave or up a tree. There 
he remained for probably a day or a night, with 
nothing to do but THINK. In the process 
he was silent and in the silence he recuperated 
physically and mentally. If you will watch a 
cat that has run away from a dog, she does cer¬ 
tain things. The greatest thing is to seek a 

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dark place such as under the porch or bed and 
there she remains in silence until fully restored, 
with poise. After all the fears of the past and 
the present, ought not one keep the Silence to 
recover? “Be still and KNOW.” 

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IT’S ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND 

If you think you are beaten, you are; 

If you think that you dare not, you don’t; 

If you think you'd like to win, but you think 
you can’t, 

It’s almost a “cinch” you won’t. 

If you think you'll lose, you’ve lost, 

For out in the world you’ll find 
Success begins with a fellow’s will; 

It’s all in the state of mind. 

Full many a race is lost 
Ere even a step is run, 

And many a coward fails 
Ere even his work’s begun. 

Think big, and your deeds will grow, 

Think small and you’ll fall behind. 

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Think that you can and you will; 

It’s all in the state of mind. 

If you think you’re out-classed you are; 

You’ve got to think high to rise; 

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before 
You can ever win a prize. 

Life’s battles don’t always go 
To the stronger or faster man; 

But soon or late the man who wins 
Is the fellow who thinks he can. 

—Anonymous. 


THE HOPEFUL SPIRIT 

I have ships that went to sea, 

More than fifty years ago; 

None have yet come home to me, 

But are sailing to and fro. 

I have seen them in my sleep 
Plunging through the shoreless deep, 

With tattered sails and battered hulls, 
While around them screamed the gulls, 

Flying low, flying low. 

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Ah! each sailor in the port 

Knows that I have ships at sea, 

Of the waves and winds the sport, 

And the sailors pity me. 

Oft they come and with me walk, 

Cheering me with hopeful talk, 

Till I put my fears aside, 

And, contented, watch the tide 
Rise and fall, rise and fall. 

So I never quite despair, 

Nor let hope or courage fail; 

And some day, when skies are fair, 

Up the bay my ships will sail. 

—Robert B. Coffin. 


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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not 
breaths; 

In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 

We should count time by heart-throbs. He 
most lives 

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the 
best. 


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They can conquer who believe they can. 

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OPPORTUNITY 

This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: 

There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; 

And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged 

A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords 

Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s 
banner 

Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed 
by foes. 

A craven hung along the battle’s edge, 

And thought, “Had I a sword of keener steel— 

That blue blade that the king’s son bears— 
but this 

Blunt thing!” he snapt and flung it from his 
hand, 

And lowering crept away and left the field. 

Then came the king’s son, wounded, sore be¬ 
stead, 

And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, 

Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, 

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And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout 
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, 

And saved a great cause that heroic day. 

—Edward Rowland Sill. 

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“He wanted a job, and, like everyone else, 

He wanted a good one, you know; 

Where his clothes would not soil and his hands 
would keep clean, 

And the salary must not be low. 

He asked for a pen, but they gave him a spade, 
And he half turned away with a shrug, 

But he altered his mind, and, seizing the 
spade— 

He dug.” 

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God bless the good natured, for they bless 
everybody else. 

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SELF CONTROL FACTOR IN LIFE 
Learn self-control! 

You need never hope to become a great busi¬ 
ness woman—or man even, for that matter— 

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until you have developed the ability to control 
yourself. When you allow another individual 
to make you angry, so angry that you show 
your frame of mind, you are permitting this 
person to dominate you and drag you down. 

If you have followed the newspaper stories 
of great legal battles, from time to time, you 
will realize, if you stop to think, that one of the 
first things a really shrewd lawyer does when 
he starts to examine a witness is to cause the 
witness to lose his temper, knowing that when 
he becomes thoroughly angry he will lose his 
self-control and tell things that he probably 
would not divulge had he remained master of 
his own emotions. 

In order to control conditions you must first 
master yourself. 

Be slow to anger—slow to express unpleas¬ 
ant opinions concerning those about you. 

Self-control is constructive. It helps you to 
build character, success, happiness. Lack of 
self-control is destructive. 

Practice self-control, then, realizing that it 
is one of the most important stepping stones 

on the road to success. 

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LIGHT 

“It takes almost as much nerve to succeed 
as it does to explain why you didn’t/’ 

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Pleasing People 

“If you save money, you’re a grouch ; 

If you spend it, you’re a loafer; 

If you get it, you’re a grafter! 

If you don’t get it, you’re a bum. 

So what’s the use?” 

“THEY WILL TALK ANYWAY.” 

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“Opportunity comes with feet of wool, 
treading softly.”—Japanese Proverb. 

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“It is always morning somewhere.’’ 

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Vtx 

When a feller gits agoin’ down hill, it seems 
as tho’ everything had been greased for the 
Okashun.—J. Billings. 

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Thoroughness + Enthusiasm = Success. 

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Some men dream of success, but others go 

out and drag it in by the tail. 

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Don’t worry when you stumble—remember, 
a worm is about the only thing that can’t fall 
down. 

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Let the man who has to make his fortune 
in life, remember this maxim: 

“Attacking is the only secret. 

Dare, and the world always yields.” 

—Thoreau. 

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“Most people would rather fail, sicken and 
die than THINK—and they DO." —Sheldon. 

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“A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it cer¬ 
tainly gets well polished.” 

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Shells we find on the beach, but for pearls 
we must dive. 

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The world isn't much interested in the 
storms you encountered at sea. The question 
is, “Did you bring the vessel into port?” 

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THE REAL WORLD 

Every one wants reality. People are grow¬ 
ing weary with the hopeless task of trying to 

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reform the world. It is the mental world that 
needs reforming, for as man’s mind is changed, 
the appearances of the world change for him. 

Reality is permanence. It is stable and un¬ 
changing—the same yesterday, today and for¬ 
ever. The only thing that changes is the con¬ 
sciousness. The world does not change, but 
our views of it. Life looked different to you 
when you were ten years of age than it does 
today. Life has not changed at all, but your 
conception of life has. When we have the cor¬ 
rect concept of the world we will live con¬ 
sciously in that world all the time. 

The real, perfect world is not the world we 
see. “The things which are seen are temporal, 
but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 
Often the world looks evil to us, and then be¬ 
fore the day is over it seems to have changed. 
Nothing has changed but you. You will go 
to the same house for your dinner; you will 
sit at the same table and see the same people. 
It is not the world—it is what you think of it. 
Only now and then we see heaven (the world 

God made and pronounced “very good”). 

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Why ? Because there is so much false thought 
vibration hiding the real world. 

I sat in the park the other day and saw a 
spray of water used for watering the grass. 
Just beyond this was a beautiful flower bed. 
I saw it through the mist, and of course did 
not see it as it really was. This is possibly an 
example of what is meant in the book of Gen¬ 
esis where it describes “a mist rising from the 
earth.” 

It is not easy to see the true world when it 
has been so obscured by the negative clouds 
formed by people’s ignorant thought. We 
must disregard appearances altogether and 
speak the “Truth.” By true thinking and 
speaking we will cause the “mist” to disappear 
and we shall see the real world which has been 
hidden from us. The ‘‘end of the world” spok¬ 
en of by all great thinkers is the end of this 
“mist” world that looks so real. The world 
will come to an end when, by true thought, 
the veil is lifted. It will be lifted in no other 
way than by the lifting of the mind’s thinking 

into higher consciousness. 

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It is possible for every one to see the real 
world and live in it now. When it is experi¬ 
enced and won by right thinking, it will be 
called “Heaven,” for man will then experience 
only Health, Perfection, Life, Love, Truth, 
Happiness and Success. Do not try to change 
the world, but change your thinking. 

“How are YOU thinking?” 

“As thou beholdest man, 

That, too, become thou must, 

God, if thou seest God, 

Dust, if thou seest dust. 1 ’ 

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE BIBLE 

Luke 15: The Prodigal Son. 

This story was told by the Master of true 
thought, to make plain to his hearers certain 
fundamental facts. 

The young man in the story left home. His 

wish was for independence (separation), so 

he went into a far country and lived in his 

senses. The far country is just as far as sense 

is from Spirit (Self). Man’s source is within. 

Nothing comes from without. If expenditures 

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of energy go on in the senses, and man is sep¬ 
arated in consciousness, “WANT” can be the 
only result. The young man was forced to 
feed swine. He had gone down in consciousness 
only. No matter how far he had gone, he was 
still his father’s son. A boy may live in Lon¬ 
don, but he is still a son though his father live 
in Chicago. Man’s extremity is always God’s 
opportunity, and when personality had failed, 
he “came to himself.” 

“I will arise and go to my Father” is fol¬ 
lowed by action. 

From Spirit to sense has been man’s way; 
from sense to Spirit, God’s way. One is de¬ 
pendent upon the outer; the other dependent 
upon the inner—one false, the other true—one 
means lack, the other abundance. His return 
was marked by plenty—“music, dancing, the 
robe and ring and the feast.” 

Luke 6:38: “Give and it shall be given unto 
you.” 

“Give and it shall be given unto you.” The 

most important word here is “give.” Many 

people have forgotten how to give. The joy 

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of giving money, time, talent and service is 
known only to a few. 

The habit of “buying” in our complex, civi¬ 
lized age is responsible for this loss. We have 
thought too long that the greatest lesson was 
“learning to acquire.” We know that the most 
difficult thing for most people is “learning to 

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give. 

In this world everything travels in circles. 
A thought sent out returns according to this 
law. It can touch others who stand in its path, 
but it will end where it began—with you. 
Whoever gives, receives, for it is always cause 
and effect. Cultivate, by all means, the habit 
of giving. If you go to the store to do some 
shopping and hand the money to the clerk, 
do not do it in the spirit of barter and ex¬ 
change, but say mentally, “I give this money.” 
Then when the purchased article is handed 
you, you can feel as if the clerk were giving it 
to you. Many people have their minds closed 
to the idea of receiving, due to the fact that 
they never “GIVE.” “Give and ye shall re¬ 
ceive.” 

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“The Kingdom of God is within you.” 

What is God? Life, Light, Love, Mind, In¬ 
telligence, Spirit, Substance, Power, Truth 
and Success. 

Wherever God is, all is like God. All that 
God is, is within you. 

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THE LAW OF SPIRITUAL SUGGESTION 

1. The objective mind judges by appear¬ 
ances. This belief in appearances short cir¬ 
cuits the sub-conscious. Since it reasons in¬ 
tellectually, the objective mind must be given 
the Truth. 

2. The subconscious mind is full of beliefs 
sent down to it from the objective mind. 
These are changed by “treating.” 

3. Now that the objective mind knows the 
Truth and the sub-conscious mind knows the 
Truth, the sub-conscious (creative mind) is 
free to work according to the patterns given 
it. 

4. The act of changing or vibrating the sub¬ 
conscious mind takes place first when the stu- 

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dent goes into the Silence and realizes “I AM” 
and then comes up into consciousness, affirm¬ 
ing “I AM” — Substance,’’ etc. The second 
phase is in the treatment which is accomplished 
by the objective mind sending these realiza¬ 
tions down into the sub-conscious. 

5. Now the sub-conscious, by high vibra¬ 
tions brought about by the realization of 
“Truth,” acts as a magnet drawing to you the 

thing you most desire. 

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THE SALESMAN’S CREED 

I believe in the goods I am selling, in the 
firm I am working for, and in my ability to get 
“results.” I believe that honest goods can 
be sold to honest men by honest methods. I 
believe in working, not waiting, in laughing, 
not weeping, in boosting, not knocking, and 
in the pleasure of selling goods. I believe that 
a man gets what he goes after, that one order 
today is worth two orders tomorrow and that 
no man is down and out until he has lost faith 

in himself. I believe in today and the work 

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I am doing, in tomorrow and the work I hope 
to do, and in the sure reward which the future 
holds. I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in 
generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and 
honest competition. I believe there is an order 
somewhere for every man ready to take one. 
I believe I’m ready—right now.—Edwin Os¬ 
good Grover. 

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A VISIT TO THE ROYCROFTERS 

The spirit of Elbert Hubbard lives in these 
thoughts which we are sending on to you: 

'‘Failure is only for those who think fail¬ 
ure.” 

"What others say of me matters little; what 
I myself say and do matters much.” 

"The leader of the orchestra is always a 
man who has played second-fiddle.” 

"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest 
is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter 
and work.” 

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who 
can shoulder them, and Power flows to the 

man who knows how.” 

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“Never explain: your friends do not need it 
and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” 

“The man who allows his life to justify it¬ 
self, and lets his work speak, and who when 
reviled reviles not again, must be a very great 
and lofty soul.” 

“Man’s boldness and woman’s caution make 
an excellent business arrangement.” 

“The man who is worthy of being a leader 
of men will never complain of the stupidity of 
his helpers, of the ingratitude of mankind, or 
of the inappreciation of the public. These 
things are all a part of the great game of life, 
and to meet them and not go down before 
them in discouragement and defeat, is the final 
proof of power.” 

“No man ever got nervous prostration push¬ 
ing his business; you get it only when the busi¬ 
ness pushes you.” 

“One great, strong, unselfish soul in every 
community would actually redeem the world.” 

“I love you because you love the things I 
love.” 


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“The love you liberate in your work is the 
only love you keep.” 

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“WHAT IS MAN?” 

Shakespeare said, “What a piece of work is 
man.” A writer of old verse said, “What is 
man that Thou art mindful of him?” To know 
who we are and what we are, are important 
facts of knowledge. 

Man is a threefold being, called body, soul 
(mind) and Spirit (“I AM”). The Self is the 
Spirit using mind as the instrument of intelli¬ 
gence, directing the body. Without this clear 
cut outline, a man may believe that his body 
is the man or he may believe that his mind is. 
He (Spirit) is the Man and as such is master, 
using the tools wisely. 

Too many people are governed by their 

senses. The bodily desires dictate to the Spirit, 

instead of the Spirit asserting the “I.” I am the 

pilot, using the mechanism (mind) to direct 

the ship. The members and organs of the body 

may be called the crew. Are the members of 

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the crew pledged to help you or defeat you? 
The man who is not master of his ship is allow¬ 
ing the crew to become mutinous. 

Frequently I have heard people remark in 
tones of depression, “My heart is not func¬ 
tioning properly/’ or “My liver is not doing 
well.” If they would pause for a few moments 
and reflect upon the Self as the master of op¬ 
erations they would realize how inconsistent 
their statements are. MY heart is to be just 
as I want it for it is mine and under my con¬ 
trol. A statement such as “I command mv 
heart to beat perfectly/’ and “I direct my mind 
to carry out my orders,” would go far in es¬ 
tablishing not only perfect heart action, but 
right thinking. 

Heretofore man has been at war with him¬ 
self thinking that there were two men in him. 
As long as this idea of a dual self is retained, 
difficulties will be kept. Mind being the in¬ 
strument which carves out of the block (body) 
the idea or design, is only the instrument and 
must be kept in its place as an obedient serv¬ 


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Many false appearances have become mani¬ 
fest in the body because the mind has assumed 
a role which has not always been the highest. 
If affirmations such as “I AM—Health” (from 
the Self) were used, instead of mere sugges¬ 
tion and auto-suggestion, the results would 
be far more satisfying. The real Self is always 
Health, but so insistent has the personal mind 
been in claiming power that many people have 
never met themselves. They have met their 
bodies—their minds, but as to the Self—that 
they have not found. 

A man may sit in his automobile without 
making any progress whatever. The machine 
is there and the mechanism—but not until the 
driver uses Intelligence will he shift gears and 
have co-ordination manifest in machine, en¬ 
gine and man. Many people are sadly out of 
tune—out of tune with God—with His universe 
—and with themselves. The discovery of Self 
is one of great importance and must not be 
disregarded. “Know thyself” is advice which 
we may still heed. 

“What is Man?” Body? No. Mind? No. 

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Spirit of Intelligence? Yes—Spirit of Intelli¬ 
gence, using Mind to think through the brain, 
setting up vibrations in the nerves, affecting 
the body. 

Man is Spirit—“I AM/’ 

“What a piece of work is Man!” 

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OUR RADIO STATION 

1. Q.—How can I train myself to remem¬ 
ber important details in my work? 

A.—By becoming more interested in 
your work. Where there is interest, there is 
concentration; where there is concentration, 
there is memory. To remember statistics, be¬ 
come interested in statistics; to remember the 
names of your customers, become interested 
in them; to remember the “Good,” become in¬ 
terested in (concentrate upon) the “Good.” 

STOP SAYING, “I FORGET”—SAY, (( I 
REMEMBER.” 

2. Q.—Why do I fear people? 

A.—You have a strong belief in duality 

—separation—two sources—man’s world and 

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God's world—your intelligence and that of 
someone else. Take this statement—“There 
is nothing but God and his manifestation.” 
Practice this realization (silently) when the 
old fear arises—you will see results. 

3. Q.—How can I accomplish much more 
than I do during the day? 

A.—By being much more quiet—with 
much less physical exertion and much more 
spiritual realization. Solomon said, “With all 
thy getting, get understanding.” 

4. Q.—What is a good thought to take on 
retiring? 

A.—“I rest in the arms of the Infinite.” 

“Rest” brings the thought of a complete 
“letting go;” “in the arms” carries the thought 
of Divine protection (“Except ye become as 
little children, ye can in no wise enter the king¬ 
dom of Heaven”); “the Infinite” envelops an 
inexhaustible range of consciousness—(All, 
All Good, All Wise, All Beneficent Guidance). 
“I rest in the arms of the Infinite.” 

5. Q.—Why do so many problems come to 
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A.—There are no problems—they are 
only misnamed such. Through our personal 
struggle, we attract personal difficulties. The 
Hindus say, “The cause of pain is self.” Sin 
(ignorance) destroys itself; when we are will¬ 
ing to ‘dose our life (the personal) that 
we may find IT (the impersonal ONE)/’ 
then shall we welcome the opportunities (so- 
called problems) for the realization of Truth, 
Love, Wisdom, Success and Perfection. 

6. Q.—Is there a definite way of learning 
to live in the present? 

A.—Yes, take this affirmation and apply 
it to any event or condition which is strangling 
your mental and spiritual development—“It 
never happened.” This is the greatest state¬ 
ment that I know of for realizing mental free¬ 
dom. There never was a yesterday; it is al¬ 
ways the eternal NOW. Finish your belief in 
retrogression—“IT NEVER HAPPENED.” 

UNDERSTANDING 

A sudden whirl of anxious thought enveloped 
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This false belief—this dual thought of man; 
This cloud of fear, in which I seemed impris¬ 
oned, 

Had hidden from my sight God’s perfect 
plan. 

I argued with myself to know the reason 
Why I had failed—when other souls had 
won— 

I sought the mortal way—self condemnation; 
Condemning God—for God and I are One! 

The mist of doubt has been dissolved—for¬ 
gotten, 

Truth has consumed all fear—all pain, and so 
Each instant “I AM”—perfect understanding, 
I do not argue with myself—I know! 

—Myrta Metzner. 

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INVICTUS 

Out of the night that covers me, 

Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods may be 

For my unconquerable soul. 

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ln the fell clutch of circumstance, 

I have not winced nor cried aloud; 

Under the bludgeonings of chance 
My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears, 

Looms but the horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years 
Finds and shall find me unafraid. 

It matters not how straight the gate, 

How charged with punishment the scroll, 

I AM the master of my fate, 

I AM the captain of my soul. 

—William Ernest Henley. 

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CONSCIOUSNESS 

So much light has been shed on the path of 

Truth students through instruction relative to 

Impersonal Healing, that Mr. Farrington has 

decided to present as a guide the following 

statements of Truth, in this, the Christmas 

number of the Bulletin. 

To receive the full benefit from the following 

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treatment, one should read it often each day. 
It may be read for a month or more with profit. 
It is not an untried formula, for many have 
found restoration to the true consciousness, 
as it has been Understood. 

“Sensing the Allness of God, leaving out all 
trace of personality, if earnestly engaged in, 
will permanently remove every difficulty from 
our path.” It is my opinion that this statement 
is absolutely correct. Special attention has 
been given in this treatment to the selection of 
words which will give this “sense of the All¬ 
ness of God.” 

May your greatest gift at Christmas be a 
realization of the “Allness of God” as explained 
in this message: 

Man is ever one with God, and expresses 
God. There is nothing else to express. God 
expressed through man is all there is. GOD 
IS LIFE, abundant, eternal, perfect and free; 
Life that is never weary or limited, but com¬ 
plete and one. Man expresses THIS Life. Life 
is Divine, not human. Man manifests reality, 

for Divine Life is real. 

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GOD IS MIND; One Mind. There is no 
mortal mind. One Mind is all there is. God 
Mind pervades all space and is immanent in all 
things. Perfect Mind is in man. Mind is never 
lost. No thought escapes from Mind. Mind 
thinks through man. Man thinks he thinks; 
it is God alone (Mind) who thinks. Man is 
the perfect expression of Mind. He knows 
all things and nothing is hidden from Mind. 
Mind creates. Man manifesting God is God’s 
thought; therefore man is one with Mind. 
There is no separation. Thought comes from 
Mind (Source) and is true, creative and whole. 

GOD IS INTELLIGENCE. Man is Intelli¬ 
gence brought into visible form. Thoughts are 
things, and things are thoughts brought into 
visibility. Man expresses Perfect Mind and is 
Perfect Intelligence. Nothing can be hidden 
from man, who is ever one with Intelligent 
Mind. Man is this Mind in activity. To know 
God is to know man. Man is God’s thought 
expressed to the world. 

GOD IS POWER—One Power. There are 

not two Powers that war against each other. 

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In God’s world there is no opposition; there are 
no dualities. One Power is working through 
all the universe, and is expressed through man. 
Utterly false and untrue is it for man to believe 
in more than one Power. “God is All and in 
All.” Besides Him, there is none else. Man 
being of God Life, Intelligence, Mind and 
Power, can realize but One, for there is only 
One. THIS POWER THAT IS GOD, IS 
GOOD. Since there is One Power that is 
Good, and all is of, and the expression of this 
One, then all is Good. All that seems not Good 
is not, having no Creator, Mind, Life, Sub¬ 
stance or Power. God looks upon his perfect 
world, and his perfect expression, and pro¬ 
claims the Truth, “It is Very Good.” 

GOD IS SPIRIT; then man is Spirit. There 
is no material universe, for it is alive, not in 
part but the whole. God being Spirit (Sub¬ 
stance, the one Substance) out of which all is 
formed, made all things of Himself. “All 
things come from God, all things live by God, 
and all ends in God.” All things are like God 

in Life, Mind, Intelligence, Power and Sub- 

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stance. Man knows the truth of Being. He 
is Divine not mortal, Eternal not temporal, 
Spirit not material. Man is indestructible, for¬ 
ever perfect, since he is God’s perfect expres¬ 
sion. 

God is all and GOD IS LIGHT; Light that 
shines ever unto the Perfect Day; light that 
is never dim; the Light that lighteth every 
man. God is Light with whom is no shadow 
made by turning. In God there is no shadow, 
since God never turns (He is the same—un¬ 
changeable Presence and Power), nor are there 
shadows caused by material thoughts passing 
through the One Mind. No material thought 
can pass through the One Divine Mind. There 
may be belief in a material thought, but in 
reality there is nothing but true thought. GOD 
IS LOVE, expressing Himself through man, 
who reveals this Truth—that man is Love. No 
hate nor jealousy in reality, for God is Love. 
Man expresses nothing but Love, for there is 
nothing else to express. 

This is Truth. As man knows Truth by 

turning in thought to God, Man is free. He is 

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free NOW. God is the basis of the universe 
and GOD IS SUCCESS. Since God is All and 
in All, there is nothing but Success. There is 
no failure in God’s perfect world. God never 
fails and Man expresses God—Man never fails. 
Man being One with God is One with Life, 
Mind, Intelligence, Power, Love, Light, Spirit 
and Success—NOW! 

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 

Success comes in “cans.” 

Failure comes in “can’ts.” 

‘‘The best way to get even is to forget.” 

The advice you don’t like is often the best. 

Don’t expect your ship to come in if you have 
never sent one out. 

Don’t expect a freighter in if you have sent 
out a rowboat. 

Don’t pity yourself; pity the folks who have 
to live with you. 

“Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo! thine 
own has reached the shore.”—Hindu Proverb. 

A man without a smiling face should never 

open a shop.—Chinese Proverb. 

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It takes two to be glad. 

You cannot stop people from thinking; 

The job is to get some of them started. 

"It’s better not to know so much than to 
know so many things that ain’t so.”—Josh Bill¬ 
ings. 

When you have reached the top don’t forget 
to wig-wag to the fellow on the foot-hills. 

Even a tombstone will say good things about 
a fellow when he is down. 

We need a good forgetter rather than a 
good memory, at times. 

Footprints on the sands of time are some¬ 
times pointed the wrong way. 

Every black sheep was somebody’s pet lamb 
once. 

"It ain’t no disgrace for a man to fall, but to 
lay there and grunt is.”—Josh Billings. 

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THE SHADOW ON THE WALL 

Plato wrote that men never see the light, 
but seem quite content with the shadows that 
are cast upon the wall. It is just as true today 

as it was centuries before Christ. 

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As long as people call sin, sickness, failure 
and death realities, they will continue to live 
in a world of dreams. The Bible says: “God 
is Light in whom is no shadow.” Then 
the shadows are outside of God, and therefore 
outside of reality. That which is unreal is 
nothing. 

Are you judging by the shadows on your 

wall? Remember, they are very distorted, and 

never do resemble Truth. We are told that 

God made man in his own image and likeness. 

If the man with whom you are acquainted is 

not Godlike you had better not condemn but 

seek for the image back of the shadow. That, 

and that alone, is perfect. A shadow has no 

life, mind or substance; it of itself cannot move, 

cannot think and cannot be weighed. Then 

it is nothing. The man God made is the Life- 

Mind-Substance man of Spirit. He is the man 

who speaks, loves, thinks and acts. This is the 

God man and He is perfect. Do not treat the 

shadows as real—they are lies and never reveal 

the truth. If you (personality) will stand aside 

and let the Light (Individuality) manifest, 

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there will be no shadow on the wall. The re¬ 
sult will be less shadow and more light. The 
only trouble that can come to man is from 
himself. By his own lack of understanding he 
brings trouble upon himself. Buddha said, 
‘‘Ye suffer from yourselves. None else com¬ 
pels, none other holds you, that ye live and die, 
and whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss its 
spokes of agony, its tire of tears, its nave of 
nothingness. Behold, I show you Truth/’ As 
long as man believes in a material man (you 
are not your body)and looks to him for help, 
he will be disappointed. When he recognizes 
man as spiritual (the real man is spiritual, ex¬ 
pressing God for God is Spirit), he will see 
God. God looks into the mirror of his universe 
and sees himself as Man. Man has no life, 
mind or substance apart from God. Therefore 
the mortal man we see is but a shadow and 
therefore not real. 

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THE GREAT SUBCONSCIOUS 
The subconscious mind is very sensitive to 

suggestion—more so than the plate of the 

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camera is to light, and more than the wax cylin¬ 
der of the phonograph is to the vibrations of 
the voice. Whatever it hears, it seeks to re¬ 
produce, and always with remarkable accuracy. 
People have often said without much serious 
thought, ‘‘I don’t like those gloves,’’ and have 
discovered that before long they had lost them. 
The explanation is simple. The subconscious 
mind took up the suggestion and worked night 
and day endeavoring to lose the gloves. One 
day it found your objective mind asleep and 
when you left the building, you also left your 
gloves on the counter. If you wished to re¬ 
cover them, you found some difficulty in re¬ 
membering where you had left them. Why? 
Because the objective mind does not know. 
The subconscious mind does, however, and as 
you sink into it, it will tell you all that you de¬ 
sire to know. This is not theory, but fact. 

The student is no doubt aware as to the 

great part which the subconscious mind plays 

in man’s life. The fact which I will now state 

will make it even plainer—that it is beyond 

question the greatest prnciple of man’s health, 

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wealth and happiness. All the cells in man’s 
body are connected by mind and are filled with 
mind. Every cell thinks. Remember that 
every cell thinks by subconscious mind activ¬ 
ity, unless one ‘‘short circuits.” Man is more 
creator than creature, and the Creative mind 
in him is continually rebuilding the tissues of 
his body, and repairing the muscles and bones 
(in sleep). 

Sleep is important for this reason—that dur¬ 
ing sleep the objective mind is shut off and the 
body is under the controlling influence of the 
subconscious mind. Suggestions given to the 
subconscious mind, just before going to sleep, 
prove of great benefit because you have given 
it a definite task to perform during the night, 
instead of allowing it to wander into many by¬ 
paths without a definite purpose. It is always 
seeking to objectify what it believes—good or 
ill. For that reason, one should be careful as 
to what is given this mind. It is the Creative 
mind and creates continually according to the 
patterns given it during the day. If sickness, 

poverty and discord are the prevailing 

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thoughts during the waking hours, then sick¬ 
ness, poverty and discord are going to be creat¬ 
ed by the subconscious mind and will sooner 
or later be objectified in one’s body, affairs and 
environment. We are the creators of our own 
fortune—our own destiny. 

My sub-conscious mind is a part of and not 
apart from the Universal Mind. Like the wave 
of the sea, it is individual only as it is a part of 
the sea. Many psychologists are now agreed 
that so-called habits are nothing more nor less 
than the activities of the subconscious mind. 
Without thinking (objectively), people play 
the piano, write on the typewriter, run the sew¬ 
ing machine, take down dictation in short- 
* hand, etc.—all from subconscious functioning. 
Some have called it “second nature,” but we 
know it is this most important phase of Mind 
itself. 

Further understanding of this subconscious 
mind will be to our great advantage. It is this 
unconscious mind which is the connecting link 
between Self and the environment. Man is 

body, soul and Spirit (body, the physical—soul, 

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the mental or mind—Spirit, the Self). The un¬ 
conscious mind, or the subconscious, is the link 
which connects the Self with all of man’s ob¬ 
jective consciousness. No one can doubt this 
—that man carries within himself the product 
of the past. We often have certain phrases 
come into our conscious mind, which we have 
probably never been aware of before, and after 

some recollection, we remember having stud¬ 
ied, or having received or having expressed 

them previously, so that man’s unconscious 
mind is simply made up of past experiences 
and instincts. We brought this mind into the 
world with us and if we are to leave this ex¬ 
pression, there is no doubt but that we will take 
it with us. 

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HEALING 

We generally think of healing in connection 
with the body. It is the mind that needs heal¬ 
ing. When the mind is healed of false beliefs 
the body is healed, since the body simply re¬ 
flects the state of mind. All healing begins 

with one’s belief in God. It would seem with 

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all the churches that this note would not need 
to be sounded. 

The world has heard much of God and about 
God but it has waited to know what God is. 
We believe that Jesus was a great and deep 
thinker along psychological lines and that his 
psychology began with CAUSE (God). He 
said that God is Spirit. “It is the Spirit (God) 
that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.” 

We have given too much attention to the 
flesh—(“Take no thought of the body”) and 
given too little heed to the Spirit. Spirit is 
Cause and if we kept our minds on Cause, the 
effect would always be in manifestation like 
Cause. 

When someone asks another how he feels, 
the one asked generally consults his senses. 
The senses are untrue and generally false. In 
Truth he should at once reply (thinking not 
of sense, but Spirit), “I AM”—well.” In this 
reply he would be speaking the TRUTH about 
Himself, which is God (Spirit in man) within. 

We quote freely and beautifully, “God is All 

and in All.” This is a great statement and if 

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we only understood how great it really is, we 
would stop and consider all that it implies. 
Since God is ALL, there is no man nor any dis¬ 
ease. That means that there is no man and 
since All is God and God is All there can be no 
reality to disease. That which is so enjoyed, 
apparently, is the result of belief held in the 
conscious and subconscious mind—a belief 
that God is not ALL, and that there is some¬ 
thing else beside God. 

Keep your mind on the Allness of God (Life, 
Light, Love, Mind, Intelligence, Spirit, Sub¬ 
stance, Power and Truth) and darkness gives 
way to Light. This is TRUTH. “Ye shall 
know the Truth and the Truth shall make you 
free/ 1 —free from belief in evil. God is “I AM 
therefore always speak the Truth about God 
and then God effects will be seen and felt in 
manifestation. 

Disease has been called a deranged state of 

mind. People are bound by medical beliefs as 

well as theological beliefs. Diseases are like 

the fashions; they come and go, according to 

the prevailing mental attitude. The public is 

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just as apt to take on a new disease as a new 
fashion, regardless as to expense or inconven¬ 
ience. It is a strange thing how people will 
fight for disease. As unpopular as they en¬ 
deavor to make it, they keep it (the thought 
of it) against all odds. With many, it is a 
pure case of wanting sympathy. 

Some people want to be noticed and demand 
the center of the stage. This is won by in¬ 
dulging in the luxury of being sick. These 
people are affected with what is known as “in- 
grown thoughts.” They think about them¬ 
selves most of the time in terms of “poor, neg¬ 
lected me.” A financial reverse or sudden call 
upon them in an emergency generally helps 
them to forget themselves, and then looking 
within to the perfect Source, they exclaim, “I 
AM”—well.” 

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AFFIRMATIONS 

“All things begin in mind, are brought forth 
by thought and worked out in word and deed.” 

The perfect order that is universal holds all 

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ideas (things) in their perfect places. I am an 
idea of God; I am in my right place NOW. 

I have the Mind of Success. 

I accept rest because it is my true nature. 

I do not care whether or not I sleep tonight; 
I am sure of this—I will rest. 

There is nothing to disagree with me—all 
food is Spirit. 

I retain food (God’s ideas). 

I hold (in the mouth) God’s loving food 
(ideas). 

I do not pray to God; I acknowledge God. 

“All things were made by the word.” 

I form my Good (Health, Success, Happi¬ 
ness) by my words. 

Watch (be careful of your thoughts) and 
pray (watch your words). 

Speak the Word only. 

Every atom, everywhere, is pure Mind and 
Substance. 

Christ is not outside the door seeking ad¬ 
mission, but within, seeking to release—EX¬ 
PRESS TRUTH. 

I can not be separated from the one I love. 

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All that I love is God; my loved one is there; 
I am there. “I AM”—always with you. 

“The thread of our life, without a break, 

Is ever unwound from His.” 

There is no discouragement. All things are 
working for my highest good. 

I wait; I work; I am patient; I give thanks; 
I know; I am satisfied. 

Mind is all Cause. I have no disturbance in 
mind, for God is my mind. “Around our rest¬ 
lessness His rest,” ever is. This rest is mine 
now, both in mind and body, for rest of body 
follows rest of mind. Mind is all Cause. 

The Cause (God) is perfect; the effect (my¬ 
self) is perfect. 

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GEMS 

At-One-Ment 

Need ye stretch forth your hand to touch Him? 

Point out the place where God is not. 

In the unending realms and spaces, 

Point out the place that God forgot; 

In Heaven or far beyond the Heavens, 

On earth or far below the sod 

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You can not touch one tiny atom 
Unless it be that there is God— 

He knoweth naught of blunt negation, 

By Him ye draw each Living breath 
And reaching out in realization 
We learn from Him there is no death. 

In Him there is no condemnation; 

For love can but perfection find, 

How could He show the strong his mercy 
And to the weak ones be unkind? 

With Him holds good no rank nor station, 

No empty formulae nor pelf; 

But to the point His testing question: 

“How much are you of God Himself?” 

Does hour by hour His spirit move you? 

Do you receive, and do you give? 

If so, yours is a glorious service, 

And yours a privilege to live. 

—Ottilie Schroeder. 

I do not own an inch of land, 

But all I see is mine— 

The orchard and the mowing fields, 

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The lawns and gardens fine. 

The winds my tax-collectors are, 

They bring me tithes divine— 

Wild scents and subtle essences, 

A tribute rare and free; 

And, more magnificent than all, 

My window keeps for me 
A glimpse of blue immensity— 

A little strip of sea. 

—Lucy Larcom. 

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If a wren can cling 
To a spray a-swing 

In the mad May wind, and sing and sing 
As if she'd burst for joy; 

Why can not I 
Contented lie 

In His quiet arms, beneath His sky, 
Unmarred by life’s annoy? 

—Robert Haven Schauffler. 


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MAKING THE MOST OF THE 

MATERIAL 

It is said that the same iron which made into 
horseshoes is worth ten dollars, is worth two 
million dollars if made into hairsprings for 
watches. It is not merely a question of mak¬ 
ing your life useful. Horseshoes are important 
and necessary, but if you have only a certain 
amount of iron to make up, it is better to put 
it into springs that will bring you two million 
dollars than into horseshoes that are worth 
only ten. You have only one life. Make the 
most of it. Expend upon the raw material so 
much skill and labor that its original value will 
be indefinitely multiplied. 

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HOW MANY STUDENTS CAN PASS 

THIS TEST? 

A professor in the University of Chicago 
told his pupils that he should consider them 
educated in the best sense of the word when 

they could say yes to every one of the ques- 

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tions that he should put to them. Here they 
are: Has education given you sympathy with 
all good causes and made you espouse them? 
Has it made you public spirited? Has it made 
you a brother to the weak? Have you learned 
how to make friends and keep them? Do you 
know what it is to be a friend yourself? Do 
you see anything to love in a little child? Will 
a lonely dog follow you in the street? Do you 
think washing dishes and hoeing corn as com¬ 
patible with high thinking as piano-playing or 
golf? Are you good for anything to yourself? 
Can you be happy alone? Can you look out on 
the world and see anything except dollars and 
cents ? 

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THE TROUBLE IS WITHIN 

Indefinite thinking means indefinite action. 
People are all the time tricking themselves 
with the idea that they know a great deal that 
they cannot put into words, and that fine, well- 
rounded purposes are back of anaemic en¬ 
deavor. But as a matter of fact the trouble 

is all within. Our life course wavers and twists 

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because our purpose is vague and indefinite. 
Our speech is incoherent because there is inco¬ 
herency in our thoughts. When the inner life, 
thought and purpose alike, are clear-cut and 
clean, the haziness of speech, the uncertainty 
of action will disappear. 

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THE LITTLE THINGS OF LIFE 

Little words are the sweetest to hear; little 
charities fly farthest and stay longest on the 
wing; little flakes are the stillest; little hearts 
are the fullest, and little farms are the best 
tilled. Little books are read the most, and lit¬ 
tle songs the dearest loved. And when nature 
would make anything especially rare and beau¬ 
tiful, she makes it little; little pearls, little dia¬ 
monds, little dews. The Sermon on the Mount 
was little, but the last dedication was an hour 
long. Life is made up of littles. Day is made 
up of little beams and night is glorious with 
little stars. 

—Selected. 


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CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS 

When we were children, how often we 
wished that every day might be Christmas. It 
was not just the gift that made us happy; we 
knew instinctively, then, that “the gift with¬ 
out the giver is bare.” We found delight, not 
so much in the toys, but in the love vibration 
that clung to them from fond parents. We 
could not explain it; we just knew it. A child’s 
wish generally comes true and this is the tru¬ 
ism, “Every day is Christmas.” 

Every day is a new day filled with the con¬ 
sciousness of God (Christ consciousness). 
Some new star of hope shines; wise men min¬ 
ister to our secret yearning and even Herods 
of power crave our joy as we understand. 

To you, who have by patient knowing 
climbed the Judaean hills of Reality, have come 
the thoughts of God (angels), whispering their 
liquid notes of “Peace on earth—Good will to 
men.” The faithful shepherds watching their 
flocks by night (watching their thoughts when 
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heard the messengers from that Heaven of per¬ 
fect consciousness. Only those who rise in 
understanding and who are faithful in watch¬ 
ing the wandering thoughts and bringing them 

back to the watch-fires of Truth, can share in 
the joy of finding the Bethlehem child. Not 
to those who rule from thrones or who are led 

by intellect, is the Truth revealed, but to those 
who will follow the inner Voice. 

All life is divine; all places holy; God is ev¬ 
erywhere. Down from the heights of silence 
towards the valleys of peace they went. Who 
will lead the way? What messenger will pre¬ 
pare the path? Where is this new Conscious¬ 
ness to be found ? In a stable among the low¬ 
ing kine, the bleating sheep and with peasant 
folk. This was the sign, “Ye shall find the 

babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying 
in a manger.” 

Can the teacher teach unless he be taught? 

Can he feel for the weary unless he live their 

life? Can he teach that in Truth there are no 

limitations, unless he has borne the yoke of 

bondage? To man, it was the birth of one 

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more peasant child—one more who must he 
bound by the swaddling bands of limitation. 
To others, it was the birth of freedom. 

Bound with thoughts of poverty and cradled 
in want, he realized the Truth and proclaimed 
but the shepherds knew that '‘the day star from 
within. As the oak comes from the acorn and 
the lily from the bulb, so man (Spiritual Real¬ 
ity) comes forth as a Son of God. 

The village folk said that Jesus was born, 
but the shepherds knew that "the day star from 
on high" had visited them. This peerless 
teacher was always found with the lowly. He 
ate with them and lived among them, showing 
how the swaddling clothes might be cast aside 
for the garment, woven from the top through¬ 
out (no separation), without seam. 

This is Christmas day; so is the morrow, for 
one may have a nobler idea and consciousness 
of God as he keeps watch “through the silent 
night.” 


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NO ROOM IN THE INN 

Christ comes to us, not only in the form of 
those in distress or need, but he comes to us 
in promptings to do right—those inner prompt¬ 
ings that no one may know of except ourselves. 
Our lives, after all, may be spoken of as Beth¬ 
lehem inns, where Christ may be born. The 
little promptings to do right are the coming 
of Christ. 

But what if all the room is taken? If we 
are thoughtless or careless or interested merely 
in our own pleasures, some of these strivings 
toward the better life have no place to stay in 
our hearts. Let us remember that Christ was 
kept out of the inn, not because the people in 
the inn did not like him or because they were 
trying to keep him out. He was kept out be¬ 
cause the places were all taken. 

If I want to have my own way, that takes 

a room. If I am interested just in myself, that 

takes a room— maybe all the rooms. Every 

time I fill up the rooms in this way and keep 

out the good impulses, I am making what hap- 

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pened in the olden time to happen again. There 
is no room for Christ in the inn. 

And our lives are really more than inns. 
They are dwelling houses. Christ comes not 
to stav over night, but to stav all the time. 
He comes to live with us. But he cannot stay 
with us unless he can get in. And he cannot 
get in if there is no room. And there cannot 
be room unless we make room. We can make 
room if we will. It need never be said of our 
lives that they had no room for Christ.—F. J. 
McConnell. 

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AVOID THE NEED OF EXCUSES 

Few business men care for explanations as 
to why a piece of work is not finished on time, 
and why an important order was missed. The 
worker who can explain his failures so that 
he feels almost as well satisfied as if he had 
succeeded, is seldom popular with his firm. Do 
not cultivate the art of making excuses. In¬ 
stead, bend your energies to avoiding the need 
of them. 


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FROM “THE LIGHT OF ASIA” 

“These words the Master spake of duties due 
To father, mother, children, fellows, friends; 
Teaching how such as may not swiftly break 
The clinging chains of sense—whose feet are 
weak 

To tread the higher road—should order so 
This life of flesh that all their hither days 
Pass blameless in discharge of charities.” 

“Scatter not rice, but offer loving thought and 
acts to all. 

So shall all evil be shut off. 

Hear the five rules aright— 

Kill not—for pity’s sake—and lest ye slay 
The meanest thing upon its upward way. 

Give freely and receive, but take from none 
By greed, or force or fraud, what is his own. 
Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie; 
Truth is the speech of inward purity. 

Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit 
abuse; 

Clear minds, clean bodies, need no Soma juice. 

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Touch not thy neighbor’s wife, neither commit 
Sins of the flesh unlawful and unfit.” 

NUGGETS 

Of what shall a man be proud if he is not 
proud of himself? 

The brave man is not always the man who 
is unafraid, but the one who is afraid and still 
does it. 

If you want to “serve the people,” it isn’t 
necessary to run for office. Work, attend to 
your own business and pay your bills. Follow 
that plan and you will be more popular than 
any statesman and will have less grief. 

Do your best and leave the rest; 

What’s the use of worry? 

Firm endeavor stands the test 
More than haste and hurry. 

“Rich rewards will come to him 
Who works on with smiling vim.” 

A firm chin is helpless without a stiff upper 

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No one can be so agreeable as an uninvited 
guest. 

It is not destiny that is against you, but 
wrong thinking and bad management. 

Solitude is necessary for the improvement 
of imagination. 

Happiness is a perfume you can not pour 
upon others without getting a few drops on 
yourself. 

It is easy to find reasons why OTHER peo¬ 
ple should be patient. 

You are the sum total of your thoughts. 
What sort of a total are you? 

Be careful and do not be afflicted with “IN¬ 
GROWN THOUGHTS.” 

They conquer who believe they can. 

Not how long you live, but how well. Not 
what you did, but what you are doing! Not 
where you came from, but where you are go¬ 
ing. 

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech is as 
shallow as time. 

The world is a wheel. God is the hub and 
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HEALTH NOTES 

Your diet will change as you change your 
thoughts. This is due to the fact that negative 
thoughts are thoughts producing acids. 
Sweeten your thoughts—not your food. Na¬ 
ture puts sugar enough in the things she pro¬ 
duces without man’s aid. The real flavor of 
our food is spoiled by sugar. Many people 
have as yet to realize the true goodness of nat¬ 
ural food. Why can’t we have raw milk? This 
is the time for green vegetables. Harmony 
at the table makes even bread and milk a most 
nourishing dish. Play more. Be a child. 
Look at yourself in the mirror and say, “I 
think well of you.” Smile now and then—it 
helps YOU and OTHERS. Walk to work 
unless you live more than five miles from your 
business. Whistle as you walk; it makes you 
breathe. “LET GO” of fear. 

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OMNIPRESENCE 

So important a part does true prayer (the 

Silence) play in the life of every individual 

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today, that due emphasis is here placed on this 
phase of Man’s activity. No longer is prayer 
considered an occasion for ceremony (imply¬ 
ing the existence of a power outside of man), 
but a silent acknowledgment of Man’s divin¬ 
ity. 

You will sense more and more “the Allness 
of God” as you study minutely the various 
attributes of Omnipresence portrayed in the 
paragraphs following: 

When we enter the Silence we assume the 
attitude of true prayer. 

In the day of primitive man, prayer was 
marked by an attitude of cringing before a 
cruel God, ever ready to punish. The savage, 
when he prayed, lay prostrate on the ground, 
awaiting the verdict of an unrelenting Deity. 

When man’s soul was quickened by his con¬ 
sciousness of Truth, he knelt in prayer and 
asked an external Power to forgive him and 
redirect his ways. 

Today we stand erect—captain of our own 

soul and meet our Maker face to face. We look 

not outside for praise or criticism, but within, 

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where AJ1 the Power—All the Judgment—All 
the Success in the universe lies, for “the King¬ 
dom of Heaven is within you.” 

All our thoughts are prayers and all our 
prayers are answered. We are punished not 
for our sins (ignorance), but by our sins. No 
one gives to us but ourselves; no one takes 
away from us but ourselves. 

“We build our future thought by thought, 
For good or ill and know it not; 

Yet so the universe was wrought. 

Thought is another name for fate— 

Choose then thy destiny and wait.” 

“When you pray (acknowledge your Good), 
go into your closet (the secret depths of your 
own soul), shut the door (close out all thoughts 
of the outer world), pray to your Father in 
secret (devote yourself in the Silence to ac¬ 
knowledging Peace, Health, Success, Good— 
from the One Source) ; and your Father who 
hears you in secret (in the Silence) will re¬ 
ward you openly (will bring into manifesta¬ 
tion for you those good things which you de¬ 
sire).” 


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Who or what is -the Father who “heareth 
you in secret”? 

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GOD 

“God is All in All”—All Good. 

God is all there is of Consciousness. 

God is all there is of Intelligence. 

God is all there is of Life. 

God is all there is of Truth. 

God is all there is of Love. 

God is all there is of Power. 

God is all there is of Success. 

The tiniest cell known to science divides and 
multiplies, proving that conscious activity is 
omnipresent. 

The maple seed uses its wings as messen¬ 
gers of conscious desire to “be fruitful and mul¬ 
tiply and replenish the earth.” 

The little fire-fly makes his appearance at 
night, illuminating his own pathway. 

Consciousness—awareness—is everywhere. 
God is all there is of consciousness. Therefore, 
God is everywhere. 


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The silk Worm feeds upon the mulberry leaf 
before it enters the Silence of realization. 

The hen steals her nest among the wild rose 
bushes in order to bring forth unmolested her 
little brood. 

The chameleon, for protection changes col¬ 
ors to harmonize with his environment. 

Intelligence is everywhere. God is all there 
is of Intelligence. Therefore, God is every¬ 
where. 

Love is devotion to the One Life—All Good 
—in All and through All. 

“Man is my brother; 

Woman is my sister; 

The world is my country; 

To do good is my religion.” 

By our very Nature, we are devoted to the 
whole of which we are a part. “I Am—the 
vine; ye are the branches.” Through the un¬ 
derstanding of Universal’ Love, we can have 
no consciousness other than that of impersonal 
affiliation with all Being. Universal Brother¬ 
hood is not an ideal, but LAW. In this con- 

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sciousness we can truthfully say, “I love the 
whole world. The whole world loves me.” 

From the most minute forms of life up 
through the most highly developed (physi¬ 
cally, mentally and spiritually), one desire is 
manifest—to realize that ”1 and my Father 
(Divine Love) are One.” 

One in All; All in One 

Love (spiritual attraction) holds the planets 
in their orbits. Love rules the world. Love 
(physical co-ordination; mental attraction; 
spiritual devotion) is the keynote of the uni¬ 
verse. 

Love is everywhere. God is all there is of 
Love. Therefore, God is everywhere. 

All the Power in the Universe is in YOU, 
for there is only One Source. You are of that 
Source this moment. 

“With God (Omnipresent Power) all things 
are possible.” 

How can the stream be separated from its 
source and still overflow its banks? How can 
you separate yourself (in consciousness) from 

your Source and still be powerful? 

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All things in their places manifest Success. 
Why ? Because consciously or unconsciously 
they are recognizing the normal, natural, Uni¬ 
versal Energy of Perfection. 

The desert cactus is well prepared to meet 
emergencies of drought and wind. The desert 
birds and beasts are camouflaged by Divine 
Intelligence so that their colors blend perfectly 
with the vegetation of the arid region which 

thev inhabit. 

* 

In Man’s realm we observe the same law. 
The individual fitted for manual labor would 
not manifest Success in the professional world 
and vice-versa. 

Success is not a question of attainment, but 
of realization. 

Success (God manifest) is everywhere. God 
is all there is of Success. Therefore, God is 
everywhere. 

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VIBRATION 

We are hearing much these days of ‘Vibra¬ 
tion. ” I would not say that we are discovering 

anything new; we are simply “hearing of it.” 

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The Ancients understood the meaning of the 
word, and used it as a power. Several basic 
facts may make this absorbing subject clear: 

1. Vibration is a manifestation of Life. 

2. It is Life Manifest, so it can be felt or 
rather, perceived, with the senses. 

3. Life is Omnipresent—therefore every¬ 
thing vibrates. 

4. The difference between the Invisible and 
the Visible is due to the difference in the rate of 
vibration. 

5. Probably the lowest vibration is the single 
pulse beat of the heart. The highest is God or 
Spirit. 

6. When the atoms of the body are vibrating 
at a very low rate, we call it disease. The idea 
of health is high vibration. To increase the 
vibratory rate of the atoms, go to Spirit, with¬ 
in you. “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the 
flesh profiteth nothing.’ 1 

7. The highest vibrations constitute the 

original Substance, from which all THINGS 

are made. It cannot be seen, felt or in any way 

experienced by the senses. It must be recog- 

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nized and molded alone by Mind. To do this, 
one must vibrate harmoniously with God. 

8. The quickest method of increasing the vi¬ 
bratory rate of the body is by being still in the 
Silence. Make the Silence long enough so that 
you reach God’s vibratory rate. To illustrate 
this point, I offer the following simple illus¬ 
tration : 

The difference in appearance between a piece 
of ice and a glass of water is due to the differ¬ 
ence in the rate of vibration. The atoms of 
water are vibrating higher than the atoms of 
ice. To have them one—melt the ice. Put the 
piece of ice into the glass of water, and allow it 
to remain there, so that the higher vibratory 
movement overcomes the lower. After a time 
the lower vibrations (ice) have been increased 
and it is all water (ONE). Be still long 
enough to melt your personal, physical self into 
the Divine; then you can say— 

“I and my Father are ONE.” 


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“ APPEARANCE” 

Appearances are not to be accepted as final. 
“Judge not according to appearance; but judge 
righteous (right) judgment.” I will go be¬ 
neath every appearance, and if judgment is to 
be passed, give right judgment. Sense judg¬ 
ment is false and limited and is responsible for 
the world’s grief. My senses deceive me; then 
how can they aid in right opinions? 

Appearance declares that the sun moves and 
that it sinks into the western ocean; science 
declares that to be false. My sense of sight 
declares that people walking away from me 
grow shorter; that a stick thrust into a pool of 
water is bent; that the railroad tracks meet 
in the distance; that the blue sky touch¬ 
es the mountain peak. In Truth, these declara¬ 
tions are false. I cannot accept the judgment 
of this world of appearance. I must listen to 
reason and Truth. 

WORTH YOUR ATTENTION 

People have been hypnotized into false be¬ 
liefs by false reports and appearances. They 

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must now he dehypnotized by listening' to 
TRUTH. 

Man is not material but Spirit (ual), made 
of the one Substance—SPIRIT. A Spirit body 
cannot fail nor be sick. 

Fear is faith in the thing you do not want 
to happen. 

There is no such thing as unbelief, but there 
is too much belief in the wrong thing. 

I Am filled with the life of God that is ALL 
GOOD. 

I and my father are One—not two. 

I am nothing, but the Force that uses me is 
all in all. 

Act out in TRUTH what you believe. Peo¬ 
ple act perfectly the false part—why not the 
true? Dramatize the following play in your 
acts today, on the stage of life, where all men 
are actors—“I am God’s idea of Himself.” 
Take note—I am not what God thinks of me, 
but I am what God thinks of Himself. God 
thinks well of Himself (Self contemplation of 
Self). Do you know it? There is only ONE. 
That ONE is “I AM.” 

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“I AM that I AM.” 

I am that very “I AM.” 

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INSPIRING THOUGHTS 
Success 

“He has achieved success who has lived well, 
laughed often and loved much; who has gained 
the respect of intelligent men and the love of 
little children; who has filled his niche and ac¬ 
complished his task; who has left the world 
better than he found it, whether by an im¬ 
proved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; 
who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s 
beauty or failed to express it; who has always 
looked for the best in others and given the best 
he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose 
memory a benediction.”—Stanley. 

A ttainment 

The Science of the task 
To Live— 

Is summed up in two words 

To Give; 

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■at 

i m 

The secret of the gift 
Success— 

Is noted in the words 
To bless; 

The pleasure of the fact 
To know— 

Bears wisdom in the act 
To grow; 

The gist of things acclaimed 
Worth while— 

Thrive in a spoken word, 

Or smile; 

Our Good within, around, above— 

Is quickened in the deed 
To Love. 

—Ottilie Schroeder. 
3514 N. 25th St., St. Louis, Mo. 

s s s 

ARE YOU THE CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP 
IN WHICH YOU SAIL? 

Shakespeare said that we are actors playing 
ii part on the stage of life. That is true. We 

are on a voyage, too. Our bodies are the ships; 

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the members, organs and senses—the crew. 
The captain is within. The individual who 
obeys every impulse and outer desire is in the 
hands of the crew. Many people have not as 
yet learned the secret of control and they have 
not learned to say, “NO.” 

The Master said, “Let your conversation be 
'yea—yea’ and 'nay—nay.’ ” The old-time 
struggle is not over for many and will not be 
until they find themselves. One person says, “I 
want to stop drinking.” Another says, “I want 
to stop smoking.” Another, “I want to eat 
slowly, but I cannot.” 

Who is captain of the ship in which YOU 
sail—the crew or YOU? 

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NOISE 

Clanking bells of street cars; honking horns 
of automobiles; the open “cut-outs” of trucks; 
the hurrying of crowds; the screaming news¬ 
boy; the elevated trains; the locomotive’s whis¬ 
tle ; the incessant talk of people—American 
city. 


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I had lived in down-town hotels for two 
years and heard these noises and my soul 
longed for quiet. I went out into the open. I 
boarded a train in Indiana and rode until I 
reached the border line of Ohio. I left the train 
and walked along the sunlit road—one mile; 
two miles; three—and now the river and the 
green fields and an old covered bridge built in 
1867. I climbed over the fence, threw myself 
down on the grass beneath a tree and all was 
still. 

I took a book from my pocket and opened it 
and this is what it said, “Noise does not belong 
to God.” Then I realized that if there were no 
ear to hear, there would be no noise. Noise 
then belongs to the senses and not to God. God 
is Peace. 

SILENCE 

Not the stir of a leaf—not a robin’s note 

Sounds on the hilltop, 

The violets lift their dainty heads, 

All silent. 

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The stately firs stand like sentinels, 
Guarding their sacred trust; 

With perfect consciousness of Peace, 

All silent. 

The fleecy clouds pass by on high, 

Dotting the azure blue, 

While in and out the sunbeams play, 

All silent. 

The greatest souls the world has known, 
Have lived in simple trust; 

In meditation, truly prayed, 

All silent. 

—Myrta Metzner. 

& 

FEBRUARY, THE MONTH OF 

INTUITION 

During the month of February we celebrate 
the birth of two of the nation’s heroes, Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln and George Washington. Feb¬ 
ruary is the month of intuition and receptivity 
and we know that these men were guided by 

the unseen reality through troublous times. 

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What would have been the result if they had 
not been “in tune with the Infinite,” listening 
to the inner voice of wisdom? 

History records the fact of their receptivity 
to spiritual leading. In the snows of Valley 
Forge, Washington was found kneeling be¬ 
neath the oak—Lincoln often closed his office 
door for quiet and meditation. Not on the far 
flung battle line is victory made complete, but 
in the Silence where the soul finds its at-one- 
ment with Universal Intelligence. Without 
this contact, this young nation could not have 
survived the shock of war (hate). 

Both men saw and demanded justice for all. 
Both realized universal equality. Each spoke 
and acted by intuition. The first said, '‘We are 
too big and great to be bound because of physi¬ 
cal relationship.” The second said, “We are 
too big to be bound by prejudice.” 

Heroes born in February are always success¬ 
ful, but never cruel. Success, regardless of its 
nature, is after all ONE—it is GOOD ex¬ 
pressed through those who are receptive and 

who will say with one who found the secret 

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of success—“I can of my own self do nothing*. 
It is the Father in me that doeth the work.” 
It is probably because these souls found this 
realization, that they have been called—one, 
“the father of his country” and the other “the 
saviour” of it. In this respect, we see these two 
men reflecting the Master of Nazareth—sav¬ 
ing men by his realization of God as being the 
Father of all. 

Inasmuch as the names of Lincoln and 
Washington are generally associated with 
wars, we delight in having a spiritual hero born 
this month, whose one aim was unselfish serv¬ 
ice. His arrows pierced the heart with divine 
love. St. Valentine is remembered because of 
his gifts of flowers to those who needed his 
cheer. The birth dates of these noble charac¬ 
ters (with their spiritual significance) are here 
offered for your consideration—such is the law 
of Good; 14 binding 12 and 22. Feb. 12—the 
Christ number—to give joy to the world; Feb. 
14 —Christ consciousness—love without pas¬ 
sion; Feb. 22—the Master number—one who 

controls. The blast of winter can never be felt 

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by those who remember these warm souls who 
were led by the Invisible. 

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HOW TO “TREAT” 

Many people are interested in the science of 
“treating” for health and supply. The greatest 
thing to remember in “treating” is to forget 
everything except the Absolute Principle 
(God), which is invisible, perfect, abundant 
Substance. In “treating” another absently— 
speak the patient’s name once (at the begin¬ 
ning of the treatment)—then turn to 
God (Life, Light, Love, Mind, 
Intelligence, Spirit, Substance, Power 
and Truth) — not to what God 
has —but to what God is. When treating for 
supply, forget the desire after it has been stated 
and turn to Life, Light, etc. Visualization is 
not necessary. In fact, it is better not to vis¬ 
ualize as the thought of the thing constitutes a 
low vibration. The following rules may be fol¬ 
lowed : 

1. Have a Silence of thirty minutes (as 

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taught in Mr. Farrington’s lesson on the Si¬ 
lence). 

2. Know what you want. 

3. State (audibly) what you want. 

4. Realize that you have it in Substance. 

3. Give thanks that you have it. 

6. Turn to God in Spirit and Truth. 

The last direction for “treating” is most im¬ 
portant. This “turning to God” in Spirit and 
Truth brings results. 

The following brief treatment is offered and 
while it is being audibly spoken, the individual 
should fix his eyes in the upper corner of the 
room and cast out of his mind all thought forms 
and images—think into Invisibility: “I real¬ 
ize that all is very good. God is all, and God 
is Good. Good is everywhere, and can be ab¬ 
sent nowhere. There is no space, no separa¬ 
tion, for God (Good) fills all and is all. All 
things begin in God, live by God, and end in 
God and within this perfect circle (symbol of 
Perfect Mind) I live, move and have my be¬ 
ing. “I Am”—Life, “I Am”—Light, “I Am” 

—Love, “I Am”—Mind, “I Am”’—Intelligence, 

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“I Am”—Spirit, “I Am”—Substance, “I Am” 
—Power, “I Am”—Truth. God is all and all 
is well.” 

^ ^ 

“TO LET” 

All the so-called difficulties in life come out 

of ignorance. One may know many things but 

* 

if he or she does not know the TRUTH it is 
of no avail. The great Master said—“Ye shall 
KNOW the truth and the truth shall make 
you free.” We all want to be free—free from 
limitations; free from fear; free from the “pov¬ 
erty thought” and last but not least we want to 
be free from worry. Truth is a great word but 
all of the TRUTH is contained in this state¬ 
ment—“God is All.” The cause of pain, fear, 
poverty and worry is the belief in self. That 
is the belief that personality exists—something 
beside God or the belief that a person exists 
apart from God. We are not apart from God 
but A PART OF God. Because we have be¬ 
lieved in two—God and someone else; another 
power; another self; another mind—all our 

trouble has come to us. There is only God and 

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no time spent in the realization of this FACT 
can be lost. This is the one great lesson we 
must learn and to this end you concentrate 
NOW. To know this will make you free from 
all difficulties. 

“Sensing the Allness of God, leaving out all 
trace of personality, if earnestly engaged in, 
will permanently remove every difficulty from 
your path.'’ Remember—positive people need 
denial and negative people need affirmation. 
Most of the people who consult me personally 
are positive. One might ask, “If that is so, why 
do they find it necessary to seek help?" For 
this reason—a positive person can make a neg¬ 
ative belief seem so real that it has all the 
appearance of being real. If a positive person 
uses affirmation only, the strong belief (nega¬ 
tive) remains in the mind. It must be erased 
from the mind by denial. The strongest belief 
and the one that causes the troubles of life is 
the belief in personality, which means that the 
individual believes in personal mind, personal 
self, personal ambition and personal will. The 

truth is that there is no mind but God’s Mind; 

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no self but the God Self; no ambition but God’s 
desire and no will but God’s will. One must 
be willing’ to die to the belief in the personal 
self before he can experience the great fact of 
the resurrection of the Divine in his own con¬ 
sciousness. 

When you realize with the Master, “I of 
my own self can do nothing, it is the Father 
within that doeth the work,” then and not until 
then will you be free. Cease struggling and 
trying—begin to “LET” God live, think and 
act through you. You are like the pipe through 
which the water flows—“LET” it flow. It will 
flow through you now as peace, health, supply 
and love if you will relax and “LET” it. You 
are not responsible for anything but this one 
thing—to “LET” God think, act and live 
through you. 

Unless you relax and “LET,” you are out 
of tune. If you are out of tune, nothing seems 
to go right and you will be most unhappy, for 
happiness is peace—peace comes from har¬ 
mony; harmony comes from relaxation and re¬ 
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we understand, we have that which ‘‘stands 
under” in our consciousness. See how the trees, 
the flowers, the birds and the creatures of the 
field “LET.” They “LET GOD” live them 
and they thus become our teachers. 

The Allness of God may be realized more 
clearly if you will realize the nothingness of 
nothing. To this end I ask you to use denials 
—not that you are denying something out of 
your mind but that you are denying your be¬ 
lief in anything but God. These denials 
cleanse the mind and make room for the 
knowledge of Truth. A vessel that is full can¬ 
not be filled and a mind that is full of false be¬ 
lief has no room for Truth until it is emptied. 

The process of emptying the mind is by the 
act of denial. 

“If any man will come after me, let him deny 
himself and take up his cross DAILY.” 
The cross which you are to take up 

DAILY is the act of crossing out false beliefs. 
Then you can realize with clearness the Truth. 
The one great thing you must cross out is your 

belief in something else beside God. 

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God is the ONLY thinker. 

God is the ONLY actor. 

God is the ONLY power. 

God is the ONLY life. 

Keep your mind off people (personality) and 
place it on God. 

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose 
mind is stayed on Thee.” It does not say 
stayed on your BODY; on CONDITIONS— 
but on God. There is nothing but God. 

1. Have a silence each day when you can 
be very quiet for one half hour. 

2. Think — meditate over the following: 
For the first fifteen minutes think over (with¬ 
in your own mind) one of these denials. The 
next dav select another one, if the first denial 
is strong and you feel that your mind has been 
cleansed. If not, keep on with the first denial, 
if it takes a week or more. Remember to use 
only one denial each day for fifteen minutes. 

Denials 

1. There is no personality. 

2. There is no evil. 

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'S. There is no fear. 

4. There is no matter. 

5. There is no pain. 

6. There is no lack. 

7. There is no hate. 

Then think for fifteen minutes over one af¬ 
firmation which you may select from the fol¬ 
lowing: 

1. God is all there is. 

2. Good is All and All is Good. 

3. Love fills All and is in All. 

4. All is Spirit. 

5. All is peace. 

6. There is plenty of God everywhere. 

7. Harmony fills and controls me NOW. 

You are well and happy now. You are pros¬ 
pering now. Your good is coming to you now 
—because you are in tune with God. 

Remember—the great master said, “Blessed 
is the man who heareth these words of mine 
and DOETH them.” 

Be faithful and the reward is yours NOW. 


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AFFIRMATIONS 

I am receptive only to constructive thought; 
I express only constructively. 

I do not believe all that I see and hear; I be¬ 
lieve what I know is eternal. 

My words are made flesh; I speak the words 
of Health, Truth and Love. 

I am not punished FOR my sins but BY my 
sins. 

I let my conversation be in heaven (perfect 
consciousness). 

I do not depend upon this generation for my 
inheritance. I go back to the Source—Per¬ 
fection. 

Wealth is Substance; Substance is God; God 
is everywhere. 

Failure may be .considered more a miracle 
than success, for failure is abnormal; success 
is normal. 

I have no belief in time or space; all is filled 
by mind. 

Today is my birthday. “I AM” born anew. 


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HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT 

ABOUT IT? 

1. That some people waste 90 per cent of 
their energy in negative emotions? 

2. That the ‘'One pointed-mind” man always 
wins ? 

3. That the senses make false reports? 

4. That you are 

“What you eat and drink 

And breathe and THINK”? 

5. That the subconscious mind functions 
perfectly when unmolested by the conscious 
mind ? 

6. That the sole purpose of the conscious 
mind is— 

To be conscious of “I AM"? 

7. That “YOU” are that big, generous, kind, 
successful Self objectified in human form? 

8. That you ought to live your own life and 
think your own thoughts? 

9. That you ought to be AWAKE or 
ASLEEP? 

10. That you are here to develop and have 

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your own soul unfold—then you are to teach 
others to do it? 

11. That I am not a body with a soul to save, 
but a soul with a body to express what that soul 
is ? 

12. Every one is acting a part. Dramatize 
the inner Self. 

13. Desire is to EXPRESS—not possess. 

14. Let us hear more about Involution first 
and then Evolution. 

15. If you are an evolutionist, please remem¬ 
ber—the germ was perfect in the beginning 
It is only the form that changes. 

16. Think of the difference between: 

“I WANT.” 

”1 HAVE.” 

“I AM.” 

17. Buddha said—“The universe grows T.” 
See how this diagram explains it: 

M 

A 

MAI AM 
A 
M 

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18. Many little leaks will sink a big ship. 
Think of these leaks—and stop them: 


Sentiment Hurry 
Worry Jealousy 

Anger Indecision 


Hate 

Fear 

Depression 


MOODS 


19. When you think—“TURN TO THE 
RIGHT/’ 


20. Visualisation without REALIZATION 
is like running a ten thousand dollar business 
on ten dollars. 

21. Self (“I AM”) contains no thought; no 
opinion or reason. Mind contains them all. 
Disease, poverty, fear and failure are the off¬ 
springs of the mind—not of the Self. 

22. People are as apt to take a new disease 
as they are to fall in with a new fashion. 

23. A positive person needs more denial; a 
negative person needs more affirmation. 

24. Since ease is mental, so is dis-t ase. 

25. Love is a lubricant. Without oil there 
is friction. Without love there is friction. 


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«f*r 

HAPPINESS 

Out in Virginia City, Nevada, there is an 
ancient Chinese storekeeper, Chung Kee, by 
name, who for forty celebrated years has been 
one of Nevada's notably happy men. 

Good days and bad, you will find him sit¬ 
ting at his receipt of customs and smiling on 
all comers like some time-worn but kindly 
Buddha. 

He has made little money, or what he has 
made he has given away again, or lost to debt¬ 
ors who would not pay. And never has any 
one been able to persuade him to get out an 
attachment for even the worst of them. 

Evidently he had some sort of philosophy. 
But just what it was, people wondered. 

And when the town was to say good-bye, 
with proper ceremonies, to 13 young men of 
the first draft, who were also, almost all of 
them, on old Chung’s books, people wondered 
what he would do about that. 

This is what he did: When in his turn he 

walked down the line to say good-bye, for each 

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of the 13 he was hiding a $5 gold piece in his 
hand, and later he explained: 

“Why I do that? They allee samee good 
boy. They no want hurt me. I not goin’ hurt 
them. All my life I nevah hurt nobody. That 
why, allee samee, my face she shine. Bad 
fellah, always you know him. Why? Alee 
samee his face she no shine. An' I want my 
face all time keep shinin’.” 

The moral to this story is that Happiness 
comes to us in but one way only. We cannot 
command it, nor can any one confer it upon 
us. It comes from within. 

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HOW I FEEL 

How do I feel? Like a child of God 

That has slowly grown from a senseless clod 

To a thing of beauty and power and light, 

A living embodiment of His might. 

Like a tiny part of a wondrous whole, 

For all the universe is my soul, 

And the outside part that you can see 

Is just a partition that folks call “Me.” 

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hike a shell in an ocean of Life and Love, 

The ocean’s around and below and above. 

And it flows through my body to feed or to heal 
And I’m really the ocean—that’s how I feel. 

—Gwen Tipton Thompson. 

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POST EASTER MEMORIES 

It is well to remember Easter and its lesson 
with regard to the practical life of today. Was 
the Resurrection simply a historic fact or does 
the Principle apply to our time and age? The 
Resurrection is Universal. 

In all kingdoms it may be seen and recog¬ 
nized. The Principle is in the lily bulb and the 
acorn. There is something within the lily urg¬ 
ing it on to development, maturity and beauty. 
Possibly the lily bulb, before Easter, is quite 
content with itself, unmindful of the hidden 
power within. The acorn is the same. Deep 
within each, in the center, there is the Principle 
of the Resurrection, the “I AM.” The lily bulb 
and the acorn have a Good Friday (death of 

the outer personality) ; so both have an Easter. 

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That something within is without limitation; 
it is “I AM” —Power. 

While walking along a country road a few 
years ago, I saw an oak tree growing between 
two great boulders. As I went up closer and 
made an examination I discovered that it was 
split in two. What great Power did this piece 
of work? Simply this great Power within the 
little acorn. God had planted the acorn some 
place beneath the great stone and the God con¬ 
sciousness {Power) within the acorn was so 
strong that it found a weak spot in the boulder 
and growing (in consciousness) day by day, it 
came forth until at last it rolled back the stone 
from the mouth of the tomb. It is this story 
that is being told by nature and by the human 
family. 

A poor boy, born in a log cabin, without the 
advantages of education or wealth, comes forth 
from his tomb of limitation to become the pres¬ 
ident of a great nation—Abraham Lincoln. 
Another boy sold papers in the railroad station 
of Detroit, Michigan. A great stone had been 

placed before his way. But he came forth, cast- 

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mg aside the grave clothes of limitations, and 
at last gave the world many inventions— 
Thomas Edison. 

It is the same story and it is being told and 
retold every day—someone buried by limita¬ 
tions but that someone coming forth to rule. 
The Principle of the Resurrection is within 
each one. 

To the question, “Who shall roll us away 
the stone ?” let me ask this one—“Who rolled 
it back on that Easter morn centuries ago?” 
The answer is, “An angel.” So it is today— 
an angel (thought of God) must do it. Mortal, 
human thought always limits and locks up the 
Perfect power within us. It is only when we 
think thoughts of God that Power is given to 
roll back the stone. It was this Power in the 
acorn, in Lincoln, in Edison and in Jesus that 
brought forth the ideal. 

Born of lowly parentage, in a corner of the 
world, offspring of a race that had served as 
slaves—without wealth, rank, influence or edu¬ 
cation, the Reality in Jesus came forth. Every¬ 
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of limitation in the tomb of defeat, but “that 
something” came forth. What he did, you 
can do. 

If you are locked up and bound; if you have 
failed to express, remember this may be your 
Easter day, when all the darkness shall give 
way to light. When the same power in you 
urges you to express, “LET" Him come forth. 
The “I AM” is within you, endeavoring to 
break through your mortal shell of false con¬ 
cepts and beliefs. It will not come forth un¬ 
less you “LET” it or desire it. Let today mark 
the beginning of a new life for you. The past 
(repression) is gone; the present (ex-pression) 
is here. “I AM” with you always, but “I Am” 
means that you must express that which is 
within yourself. Do more than believe the 
Resurrection—experience it. 

This day “I AM" coming forth as Health, 
Success and Happiness. 

NOTES FROM A GREAT TEACHER 

Blaspheming God is seeing Man imperfect. 

Man is God’s consciousness. 

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Don’t ask, “How did I get into this difficul¬ 
ty?” Ask—“How can I get out of it?” After 
you are out, it is time enough to ask the former 
question. 

Fear is a mental perception of evil. 

There is nothing but God, God’s manifesta¬ 
tion and God’s perfect man. 

We have been hypnotized into the belief in 
error—now we must be dehypnotized. 

The so-called material world is a false con¬ 
cept of heaven. 

The animal soul, being conscious of perish¬ 
able food, perishes with it. 

Thought is a high tension current. 

3 

‘ COMMONPLACE THINGS 
“A commonplace life,” we say, and we sigh, 
But why should we sigh as we say? 

A commonplace sun in the commonplace sky 
Makes up the commonplace day; 

The moon and the stars are commonplace 

things, 


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And the flower that blooms, and the bird that 
sings; 

And dark were the world and sad our lot, 

If the flowers should fail, and the sun shine not, 
And God, who studies each separate soul, 

Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful 
whole. 

—Susan Coolidge. 


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THOREAU 
“the nature philosopher ’ 

If you have built castles in the air, your 
work need not be lost; that is where they 
should be. Now put the foundations under 
them. 

The man is the richest whose pleasures are 
the cheapest. 

Some would find fault with the morning-red, 
if they ever got up early enough. The fault¬ 
finder will find faults even in Paradise. 

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; 

be good for something. 

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In the long - run, men hit only what they aim 
at. Therefore, though they should fail imme¬ 
diately, they had better aim at something high. 

A man is rich in proportion to the number of 
things he can afford to let alone. 

If a man does not keep pace with his com¬ 
panions, perhaps it is because he hears a dif¬ 
ferent drummer. Let him step to the music 
which he hears, however measured or far away. 

What a fool he must be who thinks that his 
El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives. 

Good poetry seems so simple and natural 
a thing that when we meet it we wonder that 
all men are not poets. Poetry is nothing but 
healthy speech. 

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, 

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but follows religiously the new. 

The most I can do for my friend is simply 
to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow 
on him. If he knows that I am happy in lov¬ 
ing him he will want no other reward. Is not 
friendship divine in this? 


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TO A ROSE 

When from the dark, warm earth a rose bush 
grows, 

I like to think that from the first, it knows 
Just why it came to be-ing: that the flame 
Of joy that burst that tiny seed, and came 
With sure intent, up through the earth to light, 
Held in its pulse, the secret of its might; 

That breathing in God’s air, it had the power 
To consummate its passion in a flower. 

Plants are SO STILL! Their whole attention 
bent 

Upon the wondrous alchemy of their intent; 
Their whole existence, one long joyous prayer, 
No wonder they achieve! and from the air 
Evolve such fragrance, such alluring graces, 
Such loveliness of coloring in their upturned 
faces, 

That man—who has not their unconscious art 
Of silent worship, marvels in his heart. 

No wonder, too, that when we wish to send 

A message of our love to some dear friend, 

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We know, however much we TALKED, 
hwould not convey 

What one rose tells them in its silent way. 

—Gwen Tipton Thompson. 

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SAVORY SEASONING 

Love is a language the dumb can understand 
and the deaf hear. 

God is that Being whose center is every¬ 
where and circumference nowhere. 

A rut is a small sized grave. 

You do not become old or grow old; you 
become old by not growing. 

Happiness is a state of mind—not a state 
of the pocketbook. 

If you tighten your purse strings so you can 
take nothing out, how can God put something 
in? 

I am glad some people are rich. They de¬ 
serve it. 

If you do not believe more than you can see, 
you will have trouble. 


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You cannot see gravity. 

You cannot see air. 

You cannot see electricity. 

You cannot see MIND. 

Ownership is mental. You may have a dog 
in your yard, but if he bites you and likes your 
neighbor, the latter owns him. 

It’s all the way you look at it. Two men had 
just twenty-five cents left of their fortunes. 
One said, “I have twenty-five cents left.” The 
other said, “I have twenty-five cents on my new 
fortune.” 

“Say it with flowers.” Yes and “Say it with 
the Bulletin.” Send your bulletin to someone 
who needs lifting. 

Being in Truth means more than a “week¬ 
end” vacation. Stay in the consciousness. 

When you feel anxious, say “Patience’’ three 
times. 

“I will try” means failure; “I will” means 
success. 

Faith can move mountains but it must move 
you first. 


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Environment is our thoughts turned inside 
out. 

People do not “pass on;” they “pass in.” 

“Be good to yourself.” 

Independence means dependence upon the 
“IN.” 

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THE ABSOLUTE 

God and I in space, alone, 

And nobody else in view. 

“And where are the people, Oh Lord,” I said, 
“The earth below and the sky o’erhead 
And the dead whom once I knew?” 

“That was a dream,” God smiled and said, 

“A dream that seemed to be true; 

There are no people living or dead, 

No earth below or sky o’erhead; 

There is only Myself and You.” 

“Why do I feel no fear?” I asked, 

“Meeting you here this way; 

For I have sinned I know full well, 

And is there Heaven and is there Hell 

And is this the Judgment day?” 

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“Nay, those were but dreams,” the Great God 
said, 

“Dreams that seemed to be; 

There is no such thing as fear of sin; 

There is no you; you never have been, 

There is nothing at all but ME.” 

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

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FROM A STUDENT 

When we think of time, we go back in 
thought. The more our thoughts are directed 
backward to the Beginning, the more they 
travel in cycles, until at last the circle is com¬ 
plete and we find it the NOW. There is no 
time—it is all the NOW. 

All things are relative—motion is, too, be¬ 
cause you think there is a “place.” This is 
because you think there is a city, state or coun¬ 
try you must reach. Erase state lines, remove 
cities and take away houses and you have a 
plane surface. Where could you go? Bound¬ 
aries, states and cities are all man-made. The 

moment you remove “time,” you remove “dis- 

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tance.” Distance is determined by time. 
Heaven is a place of four dimensions of which 
we see three. 

‘‘All is Spirit”—means “All is “NO¬ 
THING.” All THINGS are relative— 
THINGS then depend upon something that is 
“NO-THING.” This “NO-THING” is invisi¬ 
ble and immutable. How could the fixed cause 
be immutable and the effect mutable? Like 
cause—like effect. Since God (Cause) is ALL, 
there are no effects (THINGS), for there is 
nothing but God and his manifestation. 

God as the Invisible is “All and in All.” 
NOTHING is the SOMETHING and SOME¬ 
THING is the “NO-THING.” 

The senses are false THINGS and should 
be denied. The blind say they cannot see; the 
deaf say they cannot hear; the dumb say they 
cannot talk—but God is the Eternal Silence 
(Nirvana). Those who can hear, long for 
peace; those who see, close their eyes to see 
more perfectly; those who can speak, know 
that “Silence is Golden.” Judged by the 


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senses, all is wrong—but in Spirit and by Spirit 
all is TRUTH. 

God is forever “brooding over the face of 
the deep,” thinking over and in and through 
Himself and by self-contemplation and reflec¬ 
tion, REFLECTING Himself. There is no 
such thing as THINGS —only the reflex thoughts 
of Mind and from Mind; like Mind. 

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AFFIRMATIONS 

“Nothing was ever evolved that was not first 
involved.” 

“I am God’s idea of Himself.” 

“I am alive with the life of God that is all 
good.” 

“I have no conception of imperfection any¬ 
where.” 

“All things begin in mind, are brought forth 
by thought and worked out in word and deed.” 

“Success is Universal. 

Success is Normal. 

Success is Natural. 

Therefore I am Success NOW.” 

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“I am timeless, ageless, deathless. I am eter¬ 
nal youth now.” 

“Sensing the Allness of God, leaving out all 
trace of personality, if earnestly engaged in, 
will permanently remove every difficulty from 
my path.” 

“I am one with the great ocean of Energy.” 

“All energy is Good.” 

“I rejoice in the Abundance of God (not 
what God has, but what God is), manifesting 
now to meet my every need.” 

“I am being healed day by day, hour by hour 
and moment by moment by the renewing of 
my mind.”’ 

“I Am”—Awake. 

“I Am”—Myself. 

“I Am”—Free. 

“I am in tune with Truth.” 

I am conscious of all that IS—all is Good. 

“I AM”—ETERNITY. 

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MAN—SPIRITUAL (PERFECT) MAN 

Man is the only Being there is. 

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Man is all there is of Consciousness and In¬ 
telligence. 

Man is the totality of all the Power there 
is. 

Man is perfect. 

Man’s thoughts are true. 

Man is free. 

THE BEGINNING 

of 

a 

new 

Consciousness. 


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